The Children's War

The Children's War

Infobox Book |
name = The Children's War


image_caption =
author = J.N. Stroyar
country = United States
language = English
cover_artist =
series =
genre = Alternate History
publisher = Pocket Books
release_date = 2001
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 1168 pp (hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0743407393 (hardcover edition) & ISBN 0743407407 (paperback edition)

"The Children's War" is a 2001 alternate history novel by J.N. Stroyar. It is was followed by the sequel A Change of Regime. The book was the long form winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2001. [cite web |url=http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/complete.html |title=Sidewise Awards for Alternate History, Past Winners |accessdate=2008-09-03 |work= |publisher= |date=2001 ]

Background

The point of divergence happens in 1941 when Adolf Hitler's astrologer convinced him that attacking the Soviet Union was a bad idea and the German nuclear weapons program saw better progress. Fifty years later, the truce between Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the North America Union is still holding. The main character, Peter Halifax, finds himself betrayed by the British underground and forced into a life as a slave to a Nazi household, but is later rescued by the Polish resistance.

Characters in The Children's War

* Peter Halifax/Alan Yardley (aliases for Niklaus Adolf Chase)
* Richard Traugutt (alias for Ryszard Przewalewski)
* Zosia Król
* Karl Vogel
* Elspeth Vogel
* Julia Hoffmeier
* Katerina Kalischer

Literary criticism

Bradenton Hearald described "The Children's War" as "a brutal look at what might have been and a reminder of the price of freedom." [cite web |url=http://www.bradenton.com/entertainment/story/877303.html |title=Alternative history answers 'what if?' |accessdate=2008-09-15 |author= Stacy Reyer |date=September 14, 2008 |work= |publisher=Brandenton Hearlad]

ee also

*1945 (novel)
*Collaborator (novel)
*Fatherland (novel)
*Farthing (novel)
*It Happened Here
*Making History (novel)

References

External links

* [http://www.jnstroyar.com/ Official J.N. Stroyar website]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=nqrWNwgbUkIC&dq=Stroyar+%22The+Children%27s+War%22&pg=PP1&ots=R9m6bCbv76&sig=f4txMHdYvs6l69kUtjxmaEu5PpI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP1,M1 "The Children's War" on Google Books]


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