World War Three 1946 Series Boxed Set: Stalin Strikes First by Harry Kellogg, Margaret Jotz (Books #1-5)
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Overview: Harry is a father of 4, Grandfather of almost 4, works for FEMA. Loves to sail, x-country ski, hike, read and now write. He needs more time to play with his grand-kids…and to sail, ski, hike, read and write…
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy > Alternative History
***Warning: If you just can’t stand that thought that the USA might not win, then please don’t read this book series. It will be a cliff hanger until the end.***
* On the border of West Germany; Stalin has 60 mechanized divisions, composed of the battle hardened veterans.
* The US and Britain have demobilized their armies.
* Britain is bankrupt and rationing bread. Its empire is crumbling and its colonies are in revolt.
* Tens of thousands of USAAF and RAF planes have been dumped into the ocean, pushed into piles, crushed and left rotting in jungles around the world.
* Gangs of deserters roam the European country side.
* The US has entered a period of isolationism.
* The people of Europe are starving.
* The Germans are being brutally punished for their part in the war.
* The Soviet Union has acquired the major secrets of every strategic weapons system that the West has developed since 1935, including the atomic bomb. They have prototypes of every major German Wonder Weapon system produced since 1943.
* Greece, Italy and even France are in danger of turning Communist.
* The US and Britain have large Communist parties with thousands of sympathizers
* 90% of the industry in the US and Britain has been transformed from producing weapons, to consumer goods.
* Europe is in chaos and Capitalism has failed in the eyes of many.
These are facts, and this was the state of the world in May 1946.
This was the opportune time for Stalin to strike. This was his best chance of furthering the cause of Communism. This was his moment.
Alternate history explores the great “what ifs” of time. This is one of those great what ifs.
Book one: The Red Tide – Stalin Strikes First
The ribbons of time start to unravel and diverge from ours in 1943. Slowly at first and then faster and faster until a fateful day in May 1946. The Soviets have stopped the production of the US atomic bomb by incapacitating the majority of the American program’s scientists. This systematic crippling of the US atomic program convinces Stalin that the time is right to fulfill his deepest ambitions and once and for all rid Western Europe of Capitalism.
We were able to obtain copies of many of the actual post war strategic plans of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Many of the strategies proposed in these works, were developed from these actual plans, and would have been in effect for much of the 1946-1948 era.
What if German designed jet fighters, jet bombers, rocket powered interceptors, super tanks, undetectable submarines, guided air to air and ground to air missiles were all in the hands of Joseph Stalin. The Wasserfall and the X4 missiles will sweep the skies clear. The V2 will strike without warning. A guided V1 will unerringly strike unsuspecting targets The Seehund will make the oceans unsafe once again. The Me 262, Me 163, He 162 and the AR 234 along with the Mig 9 and Yak 15 will duel with the Meteor and Shooting Star.
These books are not written in any traditional style but is a combination of historical facts, oral histories, third person and first person accounts. I was inspired by "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two (1984 in literature|1984) by Studs Terkel and Cornelius Ryan’s wonderful books "The Longest Day" and "A Bridge too Far".
There is no hero or character development. The story is the story and not the characters.
Book Two: The Red Sky – The Second Battle of Britain
This second book is set in the World War Three 1946 universe. A universe where Stalin Learns of "Operation Unthinkable", Churchill’s ill-conceived plan to invade the USSR. He strikes first and attacks the West when it is at its weakest point and the Red Army is at its strongest. In Book Two we continue to explore one of the greatest "what ifs" in history. Who would have prevailed the Red Army or the forces of the Free World in an all out war, after the defeat of the Axis powers?
As Book One World War Three 1946 – The Red Tide – Stalin Strikes First ends, we find the Red Army has smash the feeble western armies in Germany and then France. America’s atomic scientists have been incapacitated by a dirty bomb containing polonium, smuggled in and detonated by a real NKVD spy George Koval. Who in our reality had access to the world’s only supply of the deadliest substance on earth, when he worked on producing the Mark III atomic bomb. Sometimes facts are stranger than fiction.
The Allies have temporarily stopped Stalin on the border of Spain and France where the Pyrenees Mountains makes a formidable barrier. As the Soviet version of the Blitzkrieg grinds to a temporary halt, Britain is given a chance to see the error of its wicked, capitalistic ways and to join the workers of the world. When this offer is rejected the Red Air Force prepares for an all-out attack with odds approaching five to one. Will the many, once again owe so much to the few of the RAF?
And where are the Americans? Have they abandoned their greatest ally? Have they scrapped too many of their planes and can they retool their economy, an economy that has switched almost totally to consumer products. Can they once again become the arsenal of democracy? Will they be in time to save the Royal Air Force?
Using a combination of their own skills and well-designed late war planes like the Tu 2S, the Yak 3, Yak 9 and the Lag 7 along with their newest jet fighters the MiG 9 Fargo and Yak 15 Feather, the Soviets will battle the Spitfires, Typhoons, Lincolns and Meteors of the RAF in a second battle for the skies over the British Isles.
Stalin is convinced that the next war, against the capitalist Amerikosi, will be in the air over Europe and the Soviet industrial machine starts to concentrate on air to air and surface to air missiles. These missiles are improved versions of the German Wasserfal and X4 missile. These Nazi wonder weapons were not developed in time to save the Thousand Year Reich. Brought to fruition by the Soviet industrial complex under the guidance of Sergo Peskov, the missiles wreak early havoc to the bomber streams of the RAF and USAAF. The era of massed attacks, by the manned strategic bomber, appears to be over.
Book Three: The Red White & Blue – A Giant Re-Awakes
The “The Red White & Blue” is written from the Western perspective. Unlike the first two volumes in the series, most of the protagonists are of American and British origin.
America and the West have demobilized the bulk of their armed forces in Europe by the spring of 1946. Taking advantage of the West’s military weakness, Stalin attacks Western Europe in May, 1942. By October 1946, Stalin has conquered most of Europe and is poised to complete achieve world dominance by winning the Second Battle of Britain, breaking the Pyrenees Line and marching on the Straights of Gibraltar.
America has finally taken the threat to its national sovereignty seriously and begins to rearm. The US is poised to once again become the arsenal of democracy. America’s former service men enter the frontlines in massive numbers. The citizen soldiers of democracy will attempt the impossible…the retaking of Europe. The dire situation has finally motivated American industry and the civilian population to bring freedom to our European cousins for the second time in less than two years.
The Pentagon has formulated a complex plan based of the "island hopping" campaign used to win World War Two in the Pacific. Using the vast expanses of the Russian Steppes and the personal foibles of the Soviet leadership, the US hopes to defeat the largest, most powerful army ever amassed. Along with exiles and remnants of various armies, the US will try to draw the Red Army ever farther from its base of supply, extending its logistics tail from hundreds to thousands of miles.
The leadership of the NATO Allies includes the men who defeated the Axis Powers, along with young, creative junior officers. Will the skills acquired in the last war and contributions of a new generation be the right combination to win against an even more powerful enemy?
The Allies won World War Two by depriving the Axis of oil. Oil is needed to supply and train your troops, and pilots. Oil powers weapons of war and is essential to supporting a civilian population. In the last war, the Allies attacked their enemies’ training grounds, means of production and civilian infrastructure. The Axis was unable to protect their resources. America, on the other hand, enjoyed the advantages of a steady oil supply, freedom from attack, and the capacity to supply allies with the weapons and oil to wage a modern war.
The vastness of the Soviet Empire and Eurasia dwarfs North America with resources that rival our own. Brute force will not win this war against a society who understand such force and live with it every day. The Soviets are an enemy that the west will have to outwit.
Fighting a war using the strategy and tactics of the last war will lead to defeat. New and innovative weapons systems and thinking are called for. Will the Joint Chiefs of Staff accept novel strategies and embrace new technologies such as guided missiles, nuclear bombs, jet aircraft and undetectable mini-subs?
The future of western civilization depends upon defeating the worst mass murderer in human history in the personage of Joseph Stalin. Stalinism has proven to be a scourge on human kind and it must be eradicated at all costs, and the costs will be high.
With the right strategy and tactics the leaders of the west believe the cost will not be exorbitantly prohibitive. Let’s watch as they put their theories into practice.
Book Four: The Red Sea – Blood in the Water
The path followed in this novel will lead to a possible dire end for Sergo Peshkova and all that it entails for the future of the Soviet Union. The path followed in Book Five will once again save his life.
What if for the second time, the Navy rejects Dr. B.F. Skinner’s theories? Can you imagine a world where Stalin has the ultimate naval weapons system? What could that system do to the convoys that are Britain’s lifeline and are providing America with the raw materials it needs to wage modern war?
Atomic bombs have been used by the United States in a effort to cripple Soviet oil production. The Soviets are down to 30% capacity with an oil stockpile of six months of normal operations. NATO has developed a bold plan to force the Stavka to react to a series of operations at critical points along their massive new empire. The shoreline of Greece, France, Germany, Benelux,Sweden, Finland, Norway and Italy have been added to their territory. Stalin has his long sought after buffer but can he keep it?
As with all modern wars, World War Three runs on oil. Capturing or destroying the enemies means of obtaining oil wins wars. Dictators and their fanatic followers surrender when their armies and air forces cease to exist and not befor. Civilian casualties mean nothing. When an army is cut off from its supply source or the supply source no long exits it cannot survive long.
NATO’s life line is its convoys to America. Those convoys are vital to the American war effort. The navy protecting it is one of the greatest assets the US has and is rivaled by no other nation. It leaves NATO free to invade from Kamchatka in the east to Calais in the West and Turkey in the South to Murmansk in the North.
A new iteration of the resistance movement was stating to take shape out of the ashes of the old. During World War Two close to 3 million former citizens of Stalin’s Soviet Union joined the German Army to fight against communism and Stalinism. The Nazis used them as cannon fodder.
In World War Three they are being supported by NATO. The Freedom Fighters have bee given a chance to replace thier government and to punish those that took their loved ones lives and freedom. At first the Freedom Force were a ragtag collection of rebels hiding in the forests and swamps. They train and wait for their chance to regain control of the country they love.Their numbers exponentially increase as the winter ends and equipment is provided. As they see more and more NATO troops landing in a daring series of amphibious assaults they grow bold and take the fight to the enemy.
World War Three 1946 – Addendum One
The stories presented here in this addendum are by a new author with a talent for detail and imagination. If you decided to fact check his work you will find that all the Ts are crossed, and the dots are in place. This is not really fan fiction in the true sense. This is an imagination that couldn’t contain itself. An imagination that had to find a creative outlet, and here it does.
It is presented in three parts, The Far East Theatre, Intelligence and Weapons Development. Although written to be interspersed with the overall story, we believe that this presentation of his talent is more suited to the subject matter. This addendum is for the Tom Clancy fans or the readers who want to know all the details and minutia of the story. This also will spare the people who are mainly interested in a good story the anguish of having to slog through a subject they have no interest in but fear they must or lose the essence of the story
For those of us who like the technical aspect of the military craft this is the book for you. Written by someone who knows from where he speaks, you will explore some of the most interesting “what ifs of” the Far East and in particular, China. His research on this possible area of conflict is very thorough as you will discover. We in the West, like to endlessly discuss the Western Front of WWII, but many including, me, do not know the behind-the-scenes story of the second-largest economy in the world. The Far East Theatre is on the back burner for most of the World War Three 1946 series. Mr. Figueroa helps us to imagine what may have occurred while our attention is drawn elsewhere.
His examinations of what new weapons systems might have been developed to deal with the unique situation presented are a welcome diversion into the realm of possibilities during this time period. This is a time period before the assault helicopter, the wide-scale use of an assault gun and the dawn of more effective ways to bring the enemy to battle sans direct assault on his trenches.
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