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In the end, they succeed, and this second "alternate timeline" they create turns out to be our own world. They also realize that the United States of their own time knew they couldn't really change their present and was in reality planning to escape to the reality they would create just as the
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An organization in this altered 1975 discovers the secret behind the Nazi successes of the previous decades. The group decides that it will build its own time machine to go back and stop the present nightmare of Nazi world domination. This 1975 time machine is not as advanced or powerful as the
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dynasties, and others feel they have lost out because of the social transformations enabled by decades of peace and co-operation. This group comes up with a plan to build a functional "time machine" and change history for their benefit. Their scheme is to go back as far as they can (roughly a
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falls swiftly, followed by dropping a few of the Uptime nuclear weapons to wipe out the Soviet Union. He then destroys his end of the "time conduit" and declares independence from his former sponsors. By the 1970s,
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and establishing an elitist tyranny with which they can live the lives of luxury and entitlement they believe have been stolen from them. This 'Uptime' initiative sends 21st century advisors, armament, and
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The Hitler that they seek to advise soon develops other plans. Learning about the original history from his time traveling advisors, Hitler uses these lessons to ensure that
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and the United States in the fight, while working to close off Hitler's gateway to the alternate 2020s before he gets his atomic bomb and missile advantage.
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people backing Hitler had planned to do. To prevent their United States or Nazi Germany from invading our world they have the gate destroyed.
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and a "Never Again" spirit towards war that would eventually wear away the differences between the various power-blocs. By the 2020s, a global
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original 2020s machine, so they can only open a gate to 1939. The plan is to establish a military alliance between the 1975 America of
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Realizing why things have gone wrong, it is up to the 1975 Uptime agents, cut off in 1939, to keep the western Allies, including the
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century, to the very early 1920s) and mentor the fledgling Nazi Party. They regard the Nazis as the perfect tool for destroying the
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that was engineered by more advanced time travelers from the 21st century.
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was a complete wake-up call for the human race, leading to greater
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is bound to lose, given the military power of Nazi Germany.
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James P. Hogan
Bob Larkin
Jim Warren
English
Alternate history
Spectra
United States
Hardcover
ISBN
978-0-553-05095-0
science fiction
alternate history
novel
James P. Hogan
Axis victory in World War II
Isaac Asimov
Wilhelm Canaris
Winston Churchill
Duff Cooper
Anthony Eden
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Reinhard Heydrich
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
John F. Kennedy
Frederick Lindemann
George Pegram
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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