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  • Worldwar: Tilting the Balance

  • By: Harry Turtledove
  • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
  • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (115 ratings)
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By: Harry Turtledove
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Summary

No one could stop them - not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt....

The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated much of Europe, and held large parts of the Soviet Union under their thumb. But humanity would not give up so easily. The new world allies were ruthless at finding their foe's weaknesses and exploiting them. Whether delivering supplies in tiny biplanes to partisans across the vast steppes of Russia, working furiously to understand the enemy's captured radar in England, or battling house to house on the streets of Chicago, humankind would never give up.

Yet no one could say when the hellish inferno of death would stop being a war of conquest and turn into a war of survival - the very survival of the planet....

©2009 Harry Turtledove (P)2010 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Turtledove's thorough command of storytelling and historiography...assure us that this is an irresistibl[e] book." ( Booklist)

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Very well presented.

Well presented, the character voicing is great and really get the imagination into the story.

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Tilting the Balance

A great second episode, onto the third! love the prose and narration of this classic

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Even better than the first part.

Great writing and well read. Vibrant characters getting some intense action. Still newish to audiobooks, I have a decent imagination anyway but I normally read books based on tv or movies with established characters. These feel very real.

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Outstanding work from the master of alt-history

Performance generally good- some mispronunciations- Leicester is correctly pronounced LEST-er for example. Very good aside from this

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Story is good but British accents awful.

I like this series especially my sci-fi and in particular alternate history stories. my only complaint is that Americans shouldn't even try to do British accents as one of the characters is from Devon & the accent sounds more like from Liverpool which is in the North East.

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to hell with thw lizards

just as good as the first book, ready for part 3. i must ration my self

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Outstanding performance.

Read this years ago and found the audiobook, very strong performance for the story, very consistent.

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