by Harry Turtledove
The master of alternative history is back with his latest revisionary tale: Bombs Away, where he imagines a very different Korean War. As history buffs already know, the Korean War was fought during a sliver of time where both the US and USSR had atomic weapons, but before the hydrogen bomb (aka t...
In his latest book, Turtledove imagines what may have happened if Truman decided to use atomic weapons in the Korean War. Unsurprisingly, this decision led to Russia backing China, and a nightmare of atom bombs crossing the Northern Hemisphere. Turtledove uses a variety of characters to develop his...