Dark Eagles
Hitler's been forcibly retired in favor of Speer. Germany sues for peace and World War II abruptly halts after the Battle of Britain. America loses interest in European affairs, and Germany forestalls Japanese ambitions by promising to supply oil and helping them get Japanese "liebensraum" at the expense of colonial powers. America ignores the rest of the world and returns to isolationism.
The Advance Projects Department at Peenemunde was never more than a few brilliant engineers (and about a dozen merely competent ones), some drafting tables, typewriters and a few mechanical calculators. By late 1942, the Department was virtually shut down, it's engineers reassigned elsewhere in the rush to get the A-4 ("V-2") rocket into action.
Reviewing the documents produced during the Department's relatively short existence is something like opening an ancient Egyptian tomb and finding the schematics for a digital computer and a radar set tucked in with the mummy. Logically laid out in progression, the plans for the conquest of orbital space and the building blocks for colonizing the moon and Mars are described with Teutonic thoroughness.
This book tells what might have happened if they had been acted on when they were new.
Will thought he had it all figured out: he had a job, respect on the street, his own place, a cool car, he was going to college and even a girlfriend. Then he got kidnapped, literally out of the arms of his girlfriend by FBI agents, no less and dragged off to Quantico to become a spy in another country's secret rocket program. Since the alternative is either jail or an unmarked grave, he goes along with the program. The problem is that the foreign country is a post-war Nazi Germany, and Willie is just a little too good at his job.
World War Two fizzled out in the fall of 1940. Germany's quest for "Living Space" was channeled into her secret space program. That program was kept quiet to avoid disturbing a sleeping Europe and a slowly smoldering Asia. By the early 1960's the United States sends an unlikely agent back into Germany to discover exactly how far behind they had fallen. In an effort to blend in and survive, Freiherr Karl von Oldsberth goes from minor nobleman, junior engineer and spacesuit test pilot to orbital and Lunar businessman. Praised by his Nazi associates as "The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs", von Oldsberth scrambles to keep his US spymasters happy so they won't recall him and send him to jail, while trying to avoid the Gestapo from revealing that he's a US spy while exploiting the fact that before he was recruited to be a secret agent, he was a low grade Mafia enforcer, and he's still working for the Don. The truly amazing thing is that he's getting rich at the same time.
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The Advance Projects Department at Peenemunde was never more than a few brilliant engineers (and about a dozen merely competent ones), some drafting tables, typewriters and a few mechanical calculators. By late 1942, the Department was virtually shut down, it's engineers reassigned elsewhere in the rush to get the A-4 ("V-2") rocket into action.
Reviewing the documents produced during the Department's relatively short existence is something like opening an ancient Egyptian tomb and finding the schematics for a digital computer and a radar set tucked in with the mummy. Logically laid out in progression, the plans for the conquest of orbital space and the building blocks for colonizing the moon and Mars are described with Teutonic thoroughness.
This book tells what might have happened if they had been acted on when they were new.
Will thought he had it all figured out: he had a job, respect on the street, his own place, a cool car, he was going to college and even a girlfriend. Then he got kidnapped, literally out of the arms of his girlfriend by FBI agents, no less and dragged off to Quantico to become a spy in another country's secret rocket program. Since the alternative is either jail or an unmarked grave, he goes along with the program. The problem is that the foreign country is a post-war Nazi Germany, and Willie is just a little too good at his job.
World War Two fizzled out in the fall of 1940. Germany's quest for "Living Space" was channeled into her secret space program. That program was kept quiet to avoid disturbing a sleeping Europe and a slowly smoldering Asia. By the early 1960's the United States sends an unlikely agent back into Germany to discover exactly how far behind they had fallen. In an effort to blend in and survive, Freiherr Karl von Oldsberth goes from minor nobleman, junior engineer and spacesuit test pilot to orbital and Lunar businessman. Praised by his Nazi associates as "The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs", von Oldsberth scrambles to keep his US spymasters happy so they won't recall him and send him to jail, while trying to avoid the Gestapo from revealing that he's a US spy while exploiting the fact that before he was recruited to be a secret agent, he was a low grade Mafia enforcer, and he's still working for the Don. The truly amazing thing is that he's getting rich at the same time.
Dark Eagles
Hitler's been forcibly retired in favor of Speer. Germany sues for peace and World War II abruptly halts after the Battle of Britain. America loses interest in European affairs, and Germany forestalls Japanese ambitions by promising to supply oil and helping them get Japanese "liebensraum" at the expense of colonial powers. America ignores the rest of the world and returns to isolationism.
The Advance Projects Department at Peenemunde was never more than a few brilliant engineers (and about a dozen merely competent ones), some drafting tables, typewriters and a few mechanical calculators. By late 1942, the Department was virtually shut down, it's engineers reassigned elsewhere in the rush to get the A-4 ("V-2") rocket into action.
Reviewing the documents produced during the Department's relatively short existence is something like opening an ancient Egyptian tomb and finding the schematics for a digital computer and a radar set tucked in with the mummy. Logically laid out in progression, the plans for the conquest of orbital space and the building blocks for colonizing the moon and Mars are described with Teutonic thoroughness.
This book tells what might have happened if they had been acted on when they were new.
Will thought he had it all figured out: he had a job, respect on the street, his own place, a cool car, he was going to college and even a girlfriend. Then he got kidnapped, literally out of the arms of his girlfriend by FBI agents, no less and dragged off to Quantico to become a spy in another country's secret rocket program. Since the alternative is either jail or an unmarked grave, he goes along with the program. The problem is that the foreign country is a post-war Nazi Germany, and Willie is just a little too good at his job.
World War Two fizzled out in the fall of 1940. Germany's quest for "Living Space" was channeled into her secret space program. That program was kept quiet to avoid disturbing a sleeping Europe and a slowly smoldering Asia. By the early 1960's the United States sends an unlikely agent back into Germany to discover exactly how far behind they had fallen. In an effort to blend in and survive, Freiherr Karl von Oldsberth goes from minor nobleman, junior engineer and spacesuit test pilot to orbital and Lunar businessman. Praised by his Nazi associates as "The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs", von Oldsberth scrambles to keep his US spymasters happy so they won't recall him and send him to jail, while trying to avoid the Gestapo from revealing that he's a US spy while exploiting the fact that before he was recruited to be a secret agent, he was a low grade Mafia enforcer, and he's still working for the Don. The truly amazing thing is that he's getting rich at the same time.
The Advance Projects Department at Peenemunde was never more than a few brilliant engineers (and about a dozen merely competent ones), some drafting tables, typewriters and a few mechanical calculators. By late 1942, the Department was virtually shut down, it's engineers reassigned elsewhere in the rush to get the A-4 ("V-2") rocket into action.
Reviewing the documents produced during the Department's relatively short existence is something like opening an ancient Egyptian tomb and finding the schematics for a digital computer and a radar set tucked in with the mummy. Logically laid out in progression, the plans for the conquest of orbital space and the building blocks for colonizing the moon and Mars are described with Teutonic thoroughness.
This book tells what might have happened if they had been acted on when they were new.
Will thought he had it all figured out: he had a job, respect on the street, his own place, a cool car, he was going to college and even a girlfriend. Then he got kidnapped, literally out of the arms of his girlfriend by FBI agents, no less and dragged off to Quantico to become a spy in another country's secret rocket program. Since the alternative is either jail or an unmarked grave, he goes along with the program. The problem is that the foreign country is a post-war Nazi Germany, and Willie is just a little too good at his job.
World War Two fizzled out in the fall of 1940. Germany's quest for "Living Space" was channeled into her secret space program. That program was kept quiet to avoid disturbing a sleeping Europe and a slowly smoldering Asia. By the early 1960's the United States sends an unlikely agent back into Germany to discover exactly how far behind they had fallen. In an effort to blend in and survive, Freiherr Karl von Oldsberth goes from minor nobleman, junior engineer and spacesuit test pilot to orbital and Lunar businessman. Praised by his Nazi associates as "The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs", von Oldsberth scrambles to keep his US spymasters happy so they won't recall him and send him to jail, while trying to avoid the Gestapo from revealing that he's a US spy while exploiting the fact that before he was recruited to be a secret agent, he was a low grade Mafia enforcer, and he's still working for the Don. The truly amazing thing is that he's getting rich at the same time.
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| BN ID: | 2940186163398 |
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| Publisher: | Dennis Baer |
| Publication date: | 08/20/2023 |
| Series: | Steel Birds , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 497 KB |
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