Red Inferno: 1945 (40 page)
Authors: Robert Conroy
Tags: #Soviet Union, #Historical - General, #World War, #World War II, #Alternative History, #1939-1945, #General, #United States, #Historical, #War & Military, #American Historical Fiction, #Fiction, #Foreign relations, #Fiction - Historical
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
T
his is my fifth alternate history novel, all published by Random House’s Ballantine division, and I hope there will be many more. History has taken so many twists and turns that there is no lack of intriguing alternate history plots, only a lack of time to write them. My personal list of possible what-ifs is extensive and I suppose that is true of other writers of the genre. As they say: so many books, so little time.
I would like to thank my wife, Diane, my daughter, Maura, and all the other friends and family who have supported me and even made suggestions. I would also like to thank Ryan Doherty at Ballantine for his advice and patience, and for putting up with my sometimes warped sense of humor.
And finally, a word to my young grandsons, Quinn and Brennan. Sorry, but you’re still way too young to read my books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R
OBERT
C
ONROY
is a semiretired business and economic history teacher living in suburban Detroit.
This is his fifth alternate history novel.
Some of the characters in this novel are fictitious. Any resemblance between these characters and actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The dialogue and specific incidents described are products of the author’s imagination and creativity. They should not be construed as real.
A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2010 by Robert Conroy
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Conroy, Robert (Joseph Robert)
Red inferno: 1945: a novel / Robert Conroy.
p. cm.
“A retelling of what might have happened had America done what Churchill,
Patton, and others had wanted: ordered the Allied armies to move toward
Berlin in an effort to keep Stalin from establishing rule over much of Europe.
In
Red Inferno: 1945
, this act causes the Russians to turn on their allies,
the U.S., causing a chaotic new phase of ruthless warfare.”
eISBN: 978-0-345-51962-7
1. World War, 1939–1945—Fiction. 2. United States—Foreign relations—
Soviet Union—Fiction. 3. Soviet Union—Foreign relations—United States—
Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.O51986R43 2010 813′.54—dc22 2009050830
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