A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British primeminister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost,signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler.But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that countryand pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England,after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which itwas not prepared.Now, in this thrilling, provocative, andfascinating alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenariois played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? Whatif Hitler had acted rashly, before his army was ready-would suchimpatience have helped him or doomed him faster? Here is anaction-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle of the war that might havebeen-and the repercussions that might have echoed throughhistory-had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and toofast.Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this story:from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to membersof a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service totheir nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the AbrahamLincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately tryingto escape Nazi-occupied territory-and witnessing the war fromwithin the belly of the beast.A novel that reveals the human faceof war while simultaneously riding the twists and turns that makeup the great acts of history, Hitler's War is the beginning of anexciting new alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerfulleaders and ordinary people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, ofthe shifting alliances that draw some together while tearing othersapart. At once authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugelyentertaining, Hitler's War captures the beginning of a verydifferent World War II-with a very different fate for our worldtoday.