Worldwar: Striking the Balance

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 25 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination.

With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into submission. Russia, Nazi Germany, Japan, and the United States were not easily cowed, however. With cunning and incredible daring, they pressed every advantage against the invaders' superior strength and, led by Stalin, began to detonate their own atom bombs in retaliation.

City after city explodes in radioactive firestorms, and fears grow as the worldwide resources disappear; will there be any world left for the invaders to conquer or for the uneasy allies to defend? While Mao Tse-tung wages a desperate guerrilla war and Hitler drives his country toward self-destruction, U.S. forces frantically try to stop the enemy's push from coast to coast. Yet in this battle to stave off world domination, unless the once-great military powers take the risk of annihilating the human race, they'll risk losing the war.

The fatal, final deadline arrives in Harry Turtledove's grand, smashing finale to the Worldwar series, as uneasy allies desperately seek a way out of a no-win, no-survival situation: a way to live free in a world that may soon be bombed into atomic oblivion.

What if? Listen to the rest of the Worldwar series.

©2009 Harry Turtledove (P)2011 Tantor

Critic reviews

"A cast of thousands with a plot to match, well-drawn...aliens, a wealth of fascinating speculation." ( Kirkus)

Great book

could not ask for a better book series.
Can't wait to start the next part of the series.

The peace conference and Poland

The lizards losing the war against the big main countries of WWII and Nazi Germany trying to be more powerful than the Lizards.

Interesting!

Narrator is exceptional, what an array of voices. Depth of characters is great. Can't wait to see what happens next.

Good book - Audible STINKS!

Any additional comments?

No where in the description does Audible make it clear this is the FOURTH book in the series...I thought it was the third. Is it really so hard, Audible, to figure out that folks will want to listen to the books in order and that you need to clearly state what that order is in the description?

An encouragement to carry on.

This book rounds the story up well and also encourages me to read the next!

great mash of WWII and sifi fantasy

I'm a first time listener of this author.
I'm impressed with the scope and breath of the world building along with the attention to each character. no matter the race or planet of origin each faction has strong realistic characters that will have you questing who you want to live and die.

Not the best.

A must read if you wish to follow the entire series. One of the better books in the series.

excellent series

awesome alternative history series of novels.
the narration was superb and coherent.
excellent work

An excellent ending!

The conclusions to the Race's conquest of Earth is equal parts exciting, heartbreaking, and hopeful!

I can't wait to see the continued story in Collonization.

Great Story Better Narration

I purchased lthe entire Worldwar sweries and found that the story really carried the recording because the narration was really poor, The story was great though, and i eventually got used to the boring narration, When this version arrived I took a chance and bought it. What a difference. Todd McLearn really delivers and makes the story come to life. I have already bought to first two volumes and plan to buy the next one and the "Colonization" series too. That means I will have paid for the same story twice, but the narration here is so much better than the original version that its worthwhile. I highly recommend the series, but you need to be sure you take them in order. It would be a ot easier to do that if they would number them book one, two etc. Get the frst one put on your headphones and prepare to be swept up in a titanic struggle. Will humanity continue to rule itself, or will it suffer the same fate as did the native Americans when they met superior technology at the hands of Cortez and Columbus. Only Harry Turtledove and you will know for sure.