Sunday, December 14, 2008
Moment of Destiny - Book review.
This is the first of many book reviews from my vast WW2 library. This book is Moment of Destiny - One Day in Oran by Roger Branfill-Cook, and loaned to me by "Admiral" Dave, who sails in Flagship351. This is a 1 star book. Although it is fun to read as an alternative history to WW2, it makes almost no sense and is complete fantasy. The author would have us believe that by not attacking the French Fleet at Mers-El-Kebir, the French and their fleet of Battleships, Battlecruisers etc (including Richelieu, Dunkerque, Strasbourg and others) would have led to an Allies victory over the German fleet in one large battle against the Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; one large Allies victory over the whole Japanese Battle Fleet and a huge French armor spearhead to liberate France. Also somehow, earlier in the war the Germans seize Moscow, Stalin is assassinated etc. Not to be too critical of the author he does clearly state this book is fiction, but fiction is an understatement in my book after reading it. Feel free to judge yourself.
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