Weapons of Choice

Axis of Time, Book 1

By: John Birmingham

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. In 2021, a quantum military experiment goes horrifically wrong. A multinational taskforce of ultra-modern warships is suddenly transported back in time to 1942...right into the path of the U.S. naval battle group bound for Midway Atoll.

History is rewritten in an instant as the future smashes into the past, and high-tech hardware goes head to head with World War Two technology. In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the maelstrom has only just begun. The veterans of Pearl Harbor have never seen a helicopter, or a cruise missile - let alone nanotechnology, ceramic bullets, and F22 Raptor stealth jetfighters.

Allied and Axis forces are then caught in a desperate struggle to gain the upper hand - each hoping to tip the balance with a fist full of 21st-century firepower. What happens next is anybody's guess - and everybody's nightmare.

Listen to the entire Axis of Time trilogy.

©2005 John Birmingham (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

If you really want lefty politics rammed down your throat?

One example: at one point a female reporter with no back story of military training other than that she was embedded once in the Middle East saves a 6’4” Marine by diving at a Japanese soldier, knocking him down and, while flying over him, she shoots him 3 times with an MP-4.
Ship after ship in U S Navy not only have female Captains, but they are all outstanding AND insightful.
The story is occasionally interesting, but ALLWAYs we have to be told how WW2 men are Neanderthals. It really gets old after a while. My father fought in the South Pacific in WW2, had 2 ships sunk under him by kamikazes, and treated all women as if they were royalty to his dying day. This book sullies the memories of all those warriors.

Fun to Hear

Completely enjoyed the book could drop the foul language but the over all book was fun to hear and couldn't do anything but go onto the next of the three.

Great

Can't wait to get into the rest of this series. Well worth the credit, you won't be disappointed.

Overall a good read

It's a darn good story and book but the pace just seemed a little slow for me. But as far as detail and reasoning it's a awesome book and keeps your attention

Enjoyable

the acronym soup and explanations at the beginning nearly bored me to dearth.
it picked up from there however.

Great... addicted to another loooooong series!

Oh no I am once again addicted to a long series about military time travel/alternative universe! I am as hooked on this one as I was at first with ‘Destroyermen’ by Taylor Anderson. This is something I am not happy with because the ‘Destroyermen’ series is not yet complete or available yet! I swear if this series leaves me hanging as well I will go crazy!

I loved this first book. It was well written, had plenty of characters, created just enough tension, and involved enough history and modern day problems to help you feel the drama of the story.

This book screams for a multiple narrators to help with the different characters. But none the less I didn’t mind the narration. The speed was easily increased which decreased the length of listening time. However, even if you watch your listening credit per hour ratio (like I do as I am a cheap skate) this title still gives you a lot of listening time. The problem is you won’t be able to put it down and it will be over before you know it!

I brought this one without checking the reviews or even reading the blurb about. I didn’t even know it was a series, and to be honest as I was listening to it and getting closer to the end I was wondering how is this going to finish? The closer I got to the end the more I became certain it was going to be a series. The more I became certain of this the more I became worried that it will just continue on and on like ‘Destroyermen’. However, if the rest in the series are as good as this one I won’t complain!

I don’t think this book is meant to be a thought provoking blow your mind type deal. It is simply great value for money to entertain. I will certainly be buying the next in the series.

Two thumbs up from me!

weapons of Choice- Excellent!

This is a great read- if you a history buff and loved how things unfolded at midway, this is a great alternate universe read. I can see this as a major motion picture with Tom Hanks as Kolhammer. This would be a great movie trilogy.

great story

enjoyed this recording very much. looking forward to the rest of the trilogy and the other trilogy by Birmingham

Story jumps a lot during the first half

but slowly come together for a unique adventure that no other book can offer. Makes me with for more time traveling military events.

excellent in every way

A great book, alternative history at its best. can not wait to listen to the next book. Very well read, and easy to listen too.