Fox on the Rhine
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ISBN: 0312868944 / Publisher: Forge Books, June 2000
A cadre of SS generals seizes Nazi Germany from Hitler and places Himmler in power, as he immediatly concentrates all his forces against the West, laying out the groundwork for a vastly different Battle of the Bulge with even higher stakes for the Allies.
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Fox on the Rhine is a novel that postulates what might have happened had a single incident of World War II been different.July 20, 1944.A group of disillusioned officers of Hitler's high command plant a bomb that succeeds in killing the Fuhrer, bringing forth an option for surrender, peace, and survival for all of Germany . . . but Himmler has other plans.Backed by a fanatical cadre of SS officers, Himmler seizes control from the conspirators and instigates plans to change the course of the war and corrects the faults of Hitler's plans with solutions of his own. First an armistice with Russia, and then the mass production of jet fighters, making an offensive against the West not just a chance for victory, but a sure thing.The lines are drawn. New plans are made . . . and the campaign is on, leading to a very different Battle of the Bulge, where the legendary "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel meets "Blood 'n' Guts" George Patton in a confrontation that will determine the fate of Europe and quite possibly the entire free world.
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