Provision: A ‘What If?’ Novel of the Starvation of Britain

Provision: A ‘What If?’ Novel of the Starvation of Britain During the Second World War

NOTE: This book is a well-rounded alternate history novel which means it looks at the impact of a different history on the lives of a number of characters, on both sides of the Atlantic. It is more like 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris or 'Dominion' by C.J. Sansom than a book such as 'Disaster at D-Day' by Peter Tsouras. While it involves some battle scenes, this is not a book simply of military action that just lists various units and how they might have fought against each other. If you are looking simply for a book outlining alternative battles then this book is not for you. If you want an actual novel about a different Second World War, then it will be of interest.

Rather than turn the history of the Second World War upside down to imagine a victory for Hitler, this book considers how just one nightâ€™s bombing could have had an immense impact on the course of the war. In real history, for eleven months of 1942, Allied codebreakers were unable to read the â€˜Sharkâ€™ version of the Enigma cipher that was used by German submarines. This led to a tripling of the amount of Allied shipping being sunk in the Atlantic. What would have happened if this situation had not been resolved? What if the Allies had struggled, even more than they did in our history, to read a range of Enigma messages?

Through the eyes of four members of the prosperous Seymour family, â€˜Provisionâ€™ witnesses this alternate history in the air, on land, in the fields and on the home front. It looks at the weapons, technology and the policies that this different war would have fostered and the effects on the people of the Allied nations. Britain imported more than two-thirds of its food and much of its raw materials. How would the war in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and the Far East have been affected if such supplies had begun to run critically short? What if there was inadequate to ship on to the Soviets and the soldiers fighting in the Middle East? With numerous US troopships being sunk in the Atlantic, where would the American focus for the war have fallen? How long would D-Day have been delayed?

Alexander Rooksmoor has been writing alternate history fiction for over twenty years, based on a career researching and teaching history. In this full length novel he shows how a small change could have led to a longer Second World War and one that, for many people, would have been harsher. While filling the book with carefully-considered â€˜what if?â€™ developments, he also provides rich characters to engage with, as they work to survive the greater challenges of this alternate history and look to aid and soldiers from North America to bring the conflict to an end.
Country USA
Manufacturer A.R.C. Rooksmoor
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-10-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	A.R.C. Rooksmoor
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-10-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Provision: A ‘What If?’ Novel of the Starvation of Britain During the Second World War

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