- Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, World war, 1939-1945, fiction
It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment.
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Epic, grave, relentless and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Birmingham
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited, Random House Publishing Group, Del Rey
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345457158
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John Birmingham is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir [*He Died with a Felafel in His Hand*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Died_with_a_Felafel_in_His_Hand "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand"), the [*Axis of Time*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Time "Axis of Time") trilogy, and the well-received space opera series, the *Cruel Stars* trilogy. (More on [*Wikipedia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birmingham).)
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