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  • Paperback: 816 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (7 Dec 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141029110
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141029115
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. In 2021, a quantum military experiment goes horrifically wrong. A multinational taskforce of ultra-modern warships is suddenly transported back in time to 1942… right into the path of the US naval battle group bound for Midway Atoll. History is rewritten in an instant as the future smashes into the past, and high-tech hardware goes head to head with World War Two technology. In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the maelstrom has only just begun. The veterans of Pearl Harbour have never seen a helicopter, or a cruise missile - let alone nanotechnology, ceramic bullets, and F22 Raptor stealth jetfighters. Allied and Axis forces are then caught in a desperate struggle to gain the upper hand - each hoping to tip the balance with a fist full of twenty first century firepower. What happens next is anybody's guess – and everybody's nightmare…

About the Author
John Birmingham lives in Australia, and is the author of the cult classic He Died With a Falafel in His Hand and the award-winning history Leviathan. Between writing books he contributes to a wide range of newspapers and magazines on topics as diverse as biotechnology and national security.
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars RIVETING ALTERNATE HISTORY, 14 Aug 2004
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weapons of Choice: 1 (Axis of Time Trilogy) (Paperback)
Australian author John Birmingham makes his debut in the United States with not just a splash but a tidal wave. If Tom Clancy's a fav, you'll find Birmingham right up there with him when it comes to crafting action packed scenarios, volatile confrontations, and sheer drop-off suspense. Weapons Of Choice is 434 can't-put-down pages - promise!

Our saga opens on January 15, 2021, just off of East Timor. U.S. ships and are set to take down an Islamic revolutionary government claiming 17,000 islands by Allah's decree. Thanks to battalion logistics officer Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Vivani the marines have "the very best equipment other people's money could buy."

As for the ships - quite diverse, among them the USS Hillary Clinton, and with one you couldn't miss: "The Joint Research Vessel Nagoya was a purpose-built leviathan, constructed around the frame of an "eighty-thousand-tonne liquid natural gas carrier."

All set? Not quite. A military experiment goes awry, very much awry, throwing this armada back over eighty years to 1942, and where? Smack in the center of the naval task force non-stopping to Midway Atoll.

What are the 1942 seamen to think of the time travelers who suddenly appear in their midst, and how will they react to weaponry they could not even imagine? As for the fighting men of 2021 suddenly jettisoned into the past, what must they do? Perhaps even more importantly, did an enemy come with them?

The first in a planned Axis of Time trilogy, Weapons Of Choice is riveting alternate history.

- Gail Cooke

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic !!, 21 Oct 2004
By A. C. F. Guile "eddygemmell" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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A 2021 task force are ripped from their own time and flung unceremoniously into 1942 a matter of hours before events are due to kick off at Midway. I ordered this book from Amazon because of a review in Locus Magazine. I wasn't disappointed.
It's action packed, at times bloody hilarious ( like the monkey trying to shit on the terrorists head in the first paragraph - a discerning monkey of course ). It always moves and the action sequences are fabulous. Perhaps he harps on about the race side of things a little too much but I don't care. This is the first book that I have genuinely struggled to put down in months.

Also check out Prince Harry! Yes our little guy in a SAS unit! You also get to meet all the major characters from the war you could think of and some that you might not have unless you are a bit of a WWII buff ( like Otto Skorzeny ) like me!

This is a beleivable view of what would have happened had such technology fell in the laps of the combatants in WWII. Birmingham has clearly done his research too. The characters are portrayed realistically and no punches are pulled. The guys from the future seem hard nosed and uncaring in war which is an approach contrasted with the passionate rascist attitudes of 1942 USA.

No news yet on the next two books but I wait for them like a pining puppy....

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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A time-travel novel of the first caliber, 6 Mar 2005
By Mark Klobas (Tempe, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews
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I have been a longtime fan of time travel and alternative history, and this novel brings together the best of both. While this isn't the first time such an "accidental temporal traveler" tale has been written - the tradition goes as far back to at least L. Sprague De Camp's superb novel Lest Darkness Fall & To Bring the Light - Birmingham's book is among the best of the type. His pacing is excellent, with gripping action scenes and fascinating depictions of tomorrow's naval warfare technology in action. Moreover, the development of his characters belies the "Clancyesque" blurb on the cover - Clancy can only dream of writing characters as interesting as the ones in this book.

What makes this book truly remarkable, though, is how well Birmingham brings off the differences in perceptions, particularly the contrasting perspectives about war. As much as the technological or social differences, it is the different attitudes and views that would stand out in a scenario like the one that he establishes. Today we fight wars that are dramatically different than we did in the 1940s, as are the goals and priorities that we use to fight them. Birmingham develops this brilliantly by imagining a culture shaped by the horrors of the twentieth century and two decades of our modern "war on terror" projected back into a time when life was based on different standards and war meant something completely different. It's his development of such an oft-overlooked contrast that elevates this book into a time travel novel of the first caliber, one that every fan of the genre should read.
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