After the Downfall
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Night Shade Books · Ebook · June 1, 2008
From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, comes After the Downfall, a novel of magic, epic warfare, and desperate choices.
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- Who it’s for
- Wartime command collides with epic fantasy, making obedience and moral choice the real battle.
- Themes
- Warfare and genocide, Conscience and moral conflict, Race and ideology
- Genres
- Alternate History, War Fiction, Military Fantasy
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From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, comes After the Downfall, a novel of magic, epic warfare, and desperate choices. 1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge. Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns.
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There he allies himself with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli, and Velona, their goddess in human form, offering them his knowledge of warfare and weaponry in their genocidal struggle against a race of diminutive, swarthy barbarians known as Grenye. But soon, the savagery of the Lenelli begins to eat at Hasso Pemsel's soul, causing him to question everything he has long believed about race and Reich, right and wrong, Ubermenschen and Untermenschen. Hasso Pemsel will learn the difference between following orders... and following his conscience.
Orders and Conscience
Wartime command collides with epic fantasy, making obedience and moral choice the real battle.
Come here for
- Military fantasy where battlefield knowledge meets an unsettling moral reckoning
- A collision of World War II and wizards, dragons, and unicorns
Expect
- A soldier questioning his beliefs about race, right, and wrong
- Epic warfare shaped by desperate choices
Where it sits
| Alternate History | 84% |
|---|---|
| Military Fantasy | 32% |
| War Fiction | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Epic Fantasy
- Historical Fantasy
- Historical Fiction
- Authors
- Harry Turtledove
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- June 1, 2008
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Warfare and genocide · Conscience and moral conflict · Race and ideology
- Reading lane
- Epic Fantasy