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Empire of the West

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The Empire of the West is the sixteenth book of the New England Series.

It August 1981, nearing the end of the third year of the war which has raged across the Western Pacific and at one stage threatened to engulf Australia and even India in a wave of seemingly unstoppable Japanese conquest.

Now British bombers are based in the Marianas within range of the Japanese Home Islands and the Divine Wind – the Kamikaze – has become the last hope of the Empire of Japan. Not to win the war but perhaps, to inflict a bloody stalemate before or during the invasion that everybody in the Imperial High Command expects perhaps as early as the spring of 1982 by which time the enemy’s bombers will have already wrought terrible carnage on its cities, their culture, industry and people.

And then, suddenly there is no more time to prepare to withstand the tsunami of fire sweeping towards Japan; a great fleet, one of three similar sized armadas – each the match of what survives of the once invincible Imperial Navy’s Combined Fleet – sweeps over a submarine smuggling supplies to Wake Island, one of countless isolated, irrelevant outposts contemptuously bypassed by and enemy who has harnessed the burgeoning science, technologies and industrial might of New England for a final, decisive campaign to win the war in 1981.

And to extend the British Empire from its new lodgements on the western shores of the Americas to the Sea of Japan.

The Japanese had gone to war dreaming of a Kantai Kessen, a decisive battle or battles, to smash the British in a matter of months and to secure an impregnable Co-Prosperity Zone in Asia. The admirals and the generals had gambled everything; and now having sowed the wind they are about to reap the whirlwind.

But, for the men and women on the great fleet steaming to the east nobody can have any illusions that what is to come with be…bloody.

It remains to be seen if the old Samurai spirit of the modern Japan its rulers think they lead; will be sufficient to halt the tide long enough, or to inflict so much pain upon the seemingly all-powerful enemy whom many around the Emperor in Tokyo, still believe lacks the stomach to do what must be done to win the war.

Nothing can be taken for granted; no plan no matter how big one’s battalions, ever survives first contact with the enemy. Alternate History Genre Fiction Science Fiction War & Military
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