Guy Saville
Paperback | Pages: 496 pages Rating: 3.31 | 866 Users | 137 Reviews
List Of Books El reich africano (Afrika Reich #1)
| Title | : | El reich africano (Afrika Reich #1) |
| Author | : | Guy Saville |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | October 2011 by Ediciones B (first published February 1st 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Alternate History. Thriller. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction |
Description Toward Books El reich africano (Afrika Reich #1)
Esta novela presenta al continente africano, en los años cincuenta, dominada por los nazis. Es un apasionante thriller ambientado en un contexto historico alternativo. La esvastica vuela desde el Sahara hasta el oceano Indico. Gran Bretana y una Alemania nazi victoriosa se han dividido el continente. Por mas de una decada ha reinado una calma tensa. Ahora, sin embargo, los planes de Walter Hochburn (el racista mesianico y arquitecto del Africa nazi) amenazan las colonias britanicas. /Demonic Walter Hochburg, architect of Nazi Africa, is threatening Britain's ailing colonies. In England, ex-mercenary Burton Cole is offered one last contract and grabs the chance to settle an old score with Hochburg. If Burton fails, unimaginable horrors will be unleashed in Africa. But when his mission turns to disaster, he is forced to flee for his life.
Details Books In Favor Of El reich africano (Afrika Reich #1)
| Original Title: | The Afrika Reich |
| ISBN: | 8466647457 (ISBN13: 9788466647458) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Series: | Afrika Reich #1 |
Rating Of Books El reich africano (Afrika Reich #1)
Ratings: 3.31 From 866 Users | 137 ReviewsJudgment Of Books El reich africano (Afrika Reich #1)
The blurp puts it in line of SS-GB and Fatherland ; is it a successor?More like that unpromising younger son who luckily is barred by primogeniture.Strong Setting, Weak Story.Unfortunately, the search for a new balance of power through Africa spirals out of control into a series of Hollywood action scenes involving the Portugese resistance. The descriptions get really choppy here.Saville employs a pair of ex-Legionnaires for heroes but otherwise luckily takes the high road with the story, ratherSuprisingly good alternate history book from a debut Novelist.A good background knowledge of the machinery of the third reich coupled with a fast paced , action packed story results in a book very hard to put down.Very interesting setting for the story , a well structured alternate history set in a world where Britain signed a peace deal with Hitler and set mainly in the African continent which resulted from this deal.Took a risk on buying the book and don't regret it one bit .Looking forward to
A potentially great premise - Britain, after heavy defeat at Dunkirk, agrees a peace treaty with Germany, and the two European powers carve up Africa to their mutual benefit. But the plot of this novel, following a band of mercenaries attempting to kill a Nazi governor general, was too plodding and too far-fetched for my liking. The main protagonist, in the few days covered in The Afrika Reich, survives having his plane shot down, his train blown off the tracks and his boat sunk in the Atlantic.
Full Review on my blog :- http://www.milorambles.com/2011/02/18...Ive always had a fascination for history, an interest my father instilled in me as a kid growing up, at a time when the only history taught in my school was that of the Normans and Saxons I was more of a Great War and Second World War reader I had no time for the Saxons and my exam results clearly showed that! I would have bitten someones hand off to read a book on the Anzacs or the history of The Battle of the Somme alas we
Sigh. I wanted this to be so much better than it was. Instead we get a bland story about a man recruited to kill a Nazi commander in an alternate history where England and Germany made peace and divided Africa between then. Things go wrong, and it becomes a race to escape the Nazis while running into black rebels. People die until only the expected character is left alive at the end. Characters are drawn with a broad brush, and the plot is as thin as a Fast and Furious movie. In fact, it read
This is an alternate history Nazi scenario unique for its African perspective. After the Casablanca Conference" in 1943, Germany controls most of Africa while Britain maintains sovereignty in some areas. Burton Cole, a retired major living quietly on his country farm, is visited by someone he perceives to be Rhodesian. This man offers Cole a fortune to go to Africa and assassinate a high ranking Nazi, familiar to and despised by Cole. Thus begins a perilous mission for Cole and his former
Good premise, pretty poor execution. Without spoiling the book, the ending was over the top and one long (all too long) cliche. I am sorry that I ordered this from the UK, and I question the Economist's glowing review for this book. Did the reviewer actually read the same book? Did the reviewer make it past the first 50 pages?
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