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John Birmingham (1964-) is a British-born, Australian author.
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John Birmingham
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 | By John Birmingham Duffy & Snellgrove Paperback (214 pages) Product Description: John Birmingham has lived with eighty-nine people and kept notes on all of them. This is their story. ‘A rat died in the room at King Street and we didn't know. There was at least six inches of compacted rubbish between our feet and the floor. Old Ratty must have crawled in there and died of pleasure. A visitor uncovered him while groping about for a beer.’ ‘A very entertaining freak show … an epic of squalor and degradation.’ The Guardian ‘One of the funniest books ever.’ Loaded List Price: $7.95* Lowest New Price: $24.50* Lowest Used Price: $11.96* *(As of 11:19 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By John Birmingham Del Rey Released: 2004-06-01 Paperback (448 pages) Product Description: On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific, a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . . The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll—and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war. Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor—led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance—have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they’ve never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman and half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada’s awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable. Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realization that the time travelers themselves—by their very presence—have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first century task force may have also made the trip—and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese. What happens next is anybody’s guess—and everybody’s nightmare. . . . List Price: $15.95* Lowest New Price: $3.50* Lowest Used Price: $0.01* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 11:19 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By John Birmingham Del Rey Released: 2005-10-25 Paperback (384 pages) Product Description: It’s World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who’s going to drop it first? The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction. Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missiles–all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time around. With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even greater prize . . . Hawaii. Even in the United States the newcomers from the future are greeted with a combination of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts into violence. Suddenly it’s a whole new war, with high-tech, high-stakes international manipulations from Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with possibilities–all of them apocalyptic. List Price: $14.95* Lowest New Price: $5.99* Lowest Used Price: $0.01* *(As of 11:19 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
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