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Harry Turtledove’s *Fallout: The Hot War* imagines a world where a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union turns the Cold War into a full‑scale war. Millions are killed or displaced as the conflict spreads across Europe and the Americas. Amid the devastation, characters from various backgrounds—such as a Holocaust survivor in Washington, a bomber pilot’s wife and child, a Soviet fighter pilot, and a British pub owner—grapple with the new reality. The narrative follows leaders like Harry Truman and Josef Stalin, explores the rise of Joe McCarthy, and shows the political jockeying of France, Italy, Britain, and China as they choose sides amid the chaos. Turtledove’s detailed research and focus on ordinary people anchor this sweeping alternate history in human struggle.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: War & Military Fiction/Military Fiction
Authors: Harry Turtledove
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