Harris

January 28, 2024

V2 (Review)

n interesting story that involves romance, but not in the way you’d think it. Since, of course, it centers around our wood-be lovers on either side of a ballistic rocket with a ton of high explosive in the nose cone. So in World War Two, the Germans have switched to their rockets to get hits on London (they’d be shot out of the sky if they tried to continue their bombing). In retrospect, it was the biggest boondoggle of the war – each rocket carries about as much as a couple of bombers, and allied bombers are coming over the […]
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February 16, 2025

Fatherland (Review)

o it’s Berlin, 1964. Not our Berlin, but a Berlin where Germany won World War Two. It’s not one of those “Germans Rule the Planet” deals – in this case, they own most of the east (but are still fighting red terrorists along a Vietnam-like front). All other European countries bow to them. And Hitler, now an old man, is about to have a massive birthday party. President Kennedy will soon be flying in to talk detente. Way below all this is a policeman, Xavier March, divorced, hated by his young son (for party reasons), an ex-uboat man, just doing […]
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