Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • Stalin's Hammer

  • The Axis of Time Series
  • By: John Birmingham
  • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
  • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (42 ratings)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Stalin's Hammer cover art

Stalin's Hammer

By: John Birmingham
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Monroe Doctrine: Volume I cover art
Sons of Valor cover art
The Rise of Io cover art
The Book of Ultimate Truths cover art
FantasticLand cover art
Scimitar into Stanley cover art
Starter Villain cover art
Final Days cover art
Hyperion cover art
Titanborn cover art
The Year's Top Short SF Novels 7 cover art
The Malevolent Seven cover art
Renegade cover art
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) cover art
Fear the Sky cover art
The Lives of Tao cover art

Summary

Ten years have passed since Admiral Kolhammer's 21st-century battlefleet was dragged into a wormhole and thrown across oceans of time, emerging with disastrous consequences and shattering the history of the Second World War.

Hitler and the Nazis have fallen, but Stalin rules half of Europe and Asia. The great Soviet engines of state power turn and burn to 'set history right'. Not just of the war, but of all future time.

In Rome with his lover, Julia Duffy, an older, mellower Prince Harry is drawn into Stalin's plans when a simple game of spies goes horribly wrong. Underneath the eternal city, former Spetsnaz officer Pavel Ivanov fights a running battle with the NKVD's executioner in chief as Stalin's minions fight to preserve the secret of a weapon that could destroy the West with one fearsome blow.

Moving from Rome to Paris to Cairo, Harry and the uptimers must fight a shadow war against the communist superstate and the suspicion and prejudices of their forebears. They can save the world, but the world does not want saving by the likes of them.

"A weapons-grade military techno-thriller.... It's like a Clive Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen Ambrose history, and they came out all fused together." (Time magazine, on the original Axis of Time series)

©2016 John Birmingham (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Birmingham sets new standards in alternate history, time travel, and sheer dancing-on-the-edge-of-the lava gonzo inventiveness. Solid and wild at the same time." (S. M. Stirling, author of Dies the Fire)

What listeners say about Stalin's Hammer

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    30
  • 4 Stars
    10
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    31
  • 4 Stars
    5
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    29
  • 4 Stars
    8
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Getting thete

John Birmingham... I hate you. I now have to get the next one... but where is it?... The story rolls on without slackening but without losing its edge or drifting into a mediocre storyline..... off to spend a credit to fill the time

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Not as good as the original trilogy but a great listen nevertheless

This book picks up the storyline of the original novels 10 years on. Whilst there is a big picture story/plot the narrative is mostly about small-scale actions. The descriptions of violence are frequent and graphically gory, which I found off-putting. The focus on Harry seems excessive, but despite these issues I enjoyed the book and hood there is another instalment, since the alternative history premise is fascinating, the plot twist at the end was good.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Could have been good

The idea is interesting but ti felt it was underused.
The first half of the book is hard to get trough mostly because of the forceful use of slang and the awful narration.
All the 'guvnor's are so cringeworthy that i almost gave up.
Thankfully by the second half it gets dropped and most of the characters are killed out of the nowhere.
Overall it is a fail for me.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful