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Overview: Stuart Slade was Director of the Consulting Group at Forecast International in Newtown, CT, a company which provides Market Intelligence for the world’s Aerospace/Defense industries. He was also the primary analyst for the company’s Warships Forecast and Industrial & Marine Turbine Forecast. In other defense related areas, he wrote United States Strategic Bombers 1945-2012, Littoral Warfare: Ships and Systems, Navies in the Nuclear Age and Multinational Naval Operations. He was also the successful author of 14 published novels including an alternate history series that began with his 2007 novel The Big One. He died in December 2020.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Alternate History
01 1940 A Mighty Endeavor
When the Second World War started, the countries that made up the British Commonwealth agreed that if Britain was forced to surrender, the Dominions would carry on the war by themselves. On June 19, 1940, the unthinkable happened and Britain was forced out of the war. The Commonwealth was left on its own and has to shoulder the burden of fighting Germany without the center of Commonwealth military, economic and political power. In a world now full of unexpected enemies and unlikely friends, the Commonwealth faces a desperate struggle to survive.
02 1943 Kazan Thunderbolts
Russia’s last line of defense against the German invasion is the Volga River that runs through the heart of the country. By 1943, the Russian Army is fighting to hold the few remaining bridgeheads on the west bank of the Volga against the victorious Germans. But, help is coming as American personnel, supplies and equipment pour into Russia.At the leading edge of the flood is American air power. B-17 bombers and P-47 fighter groups arrive on the east bank of the Volga and are thrown into the battle for Kazan. Soon, Americans on the ground and in the air learn the full horror of the Russian Front as they try and build their alliance with the Russians. As Americans and Russians fight side by side, soon both nations find that an alliance is becoming a firm friendship.
04 1947 The Big One
It is the summer of 1947 and Europe is being torn apart by a war nobody can win. Nazi Germany occupies everything from the Pyrenees to the Volga, from Britain to the Alps. In the east, Russian and American Armies fight together, holding the line on the Volga to prevent the German Army from breaking through. In the West, American aircraft carriers rule the Atlantic, hurling their hordes of midnight-blue fighter-bombers against every target they can find. Yet, nothing can stop the madness.#xD;#xD;Now, America has one last hand left to play. A fleet of the largest bombers the world has ever seen and a plan to bring the war to an end with a single, terrible blow. Now, in the skies over Germany, nuclear-armed B-36 bombers fight their way past German jet and rocket fighters in a final cataclysmic confrontation. In a world gone to hell, the only option left is The Big One.
05 1948 Anvil of Necessity
A year after The Big One, the world tries to recover from the disasters of World War Two. In Eastern Europe, A German Field Marshal and a Russian General try to find a way of ending the fighting without further bloodshed. In the UK, a shipyard worker struggles to find a future for his family. Far away from Europe, Thailand faces a military crisis that forces a young woman to face challenges she had never imagined. In a world that has been ruined by the Second World War, everybody has to make decisions based on the harshest of rules, the anvil of necessity
06 1959 The Great Game
Twelve years after The Big One, SAC is an organization in crisis. Developing defenses have placed its bombers at risk. SAC is gambling on a new concept of bomber to restore its power, the B-58 Hustler. Outside America, Nazi Germany has been devastated by nuclear fire but the remnants of its armed forces still fight on in Russia, forming their own small states. Only one now remains, led by Baron Walter Model, who still has the world’s last SS division and a fearsome arsenal of poison gas. In the Pacific, the Empire of Japan is looking at its neighbors with greedy eyes. They are willing to acquire them by any means necessary. That will lead to a confrontation between the world’s greatest battleship and the world’s last battlecruiser. The Japanese also use the new doctrines of revolutionary warfare but do they understand what they are playing with? And another power is rising, one that may rival Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in malice.
07 1965 Crusade
A new world power, The Caliphate, has been born It is spreading across the Middle East absorbing the other countries in the area. The rest of the would sees The Caliphate as a homogenous power that has a long-term plan for regional domination but those inside the new country see a far different picture. The Caliphate is unstable, weakly led and riddled with internal contradictions. Only its constant outward expansion holds the whole ramshackle ediface together. The Caliphate also has a Far Eastern rival, one whose long-term aims are very different. A collision between the two is inevitable. There is another factor that looms on the horizon. Willingly or not, The Caliphate’s expansion will bring it into direct conflict with the United States and that means it will face SAC’s bombers. Yet The Caliphate’s leaders do not understand the terrible meaning of that confrontation. In a world that stands on the brink of disaster, can good men and bad work together to prevent the catastrophe?
08 1972 Ride of the Valkyries
The B-70 Valkyrie is joining America’s arsenal at a time when the world is hitting a new crisis. In North Africa, heroic resistance by French and Algerian troops have stopped the advance of the Caliphate in its tracks. In the South China Sea, missile cruisers of the Indian and Japanese Navy are about to meet head-on in the first major naval battle for a quarter of a century. In a battle that ranges from the deserts of North Africa to the fabulous casinos in Cuba, the Valkyrie will draw its baptism of fire in an effort to destroy the Caliphate’s biological weapons
09 1982 Lion Resurgent
Great Britain has walked a long, hard road back from defeat and occupation. In the process it has rebuilt its armed forces at the cutting edge of modern operational technology. But, they are still untested and untried. Now, as the Argentine Government casts covetous eyes on the Falkland Islands, Britain must show the world that it is, once again, a major power with a voice to be heard. To do this, they must fight an unprecedented campaign at the end of an 8,000 mile supply line and endure a brutal slugging match. Has their army shaken off the specter of defeat? Is their Navy capable of fighting so far from home bases? What are the mysterious Auxiliary Units whose very existence is denied? Above all, is the Lion Resurgent?
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Big One 00 Conrad’s Eye by Stuart Slade here: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=3131381&hilit=Stuart+Slade
Big One 03 1945 Winter Warriors by Stuart Slade here: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1294&t=480084&hilit=Stuart+Slade
Big One 10 1986 The High Frontier by Stuart Slade here: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=3112986&hilit=Stuart+Slade.
