Final Impact (novel)
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| Author | John Birmingham |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Series | Axis of Time |
| Genre(s) | Alternate history, Science fiction |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Released | January 2007 |
| Media Type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 368 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-45716-1 |
| Preceded by | Designated Targets |
Final Impact is the third volume of John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy.
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[edit] Plot summary
Picking up two years onwards from the end of Designated Targets, Final Impact is the last novel in the Axis of Time trilogy. The Big Hill has been refurbished and is to head back into battle, with Admiral Kolhammer back in command. Many characters have died in the intervening time period, from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, by his own hand to Commander Dan Black, one of the main characters of the story who asks for a return to combat and dies during the retakeover of Hawaii, when his plane crashed before it can take off from Muroc Airfield, California.
[edit] Historical characters featured
[edit] British Commonwealth
- Vera Atkins, British agent
- Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Australian Army; Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces, South-West Pacific Area
- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
- John Curtin, Australian Prime Minister
- Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, British ambassador to the US
- Bernard Montgomery, General, commander of British forces in France
- Philip Mountbatten, Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy
- Kim Philby, Soviet agent in hiding; aids Skorzeny's commandos.
- Archibald Wavell, General, commander of British defences
- Prince Harry, younger brother of the 21st century British King, a Special Air Service Major in his late thirties.
[edit] Germany
- Walther Bothe, physicist
- Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist
- Kurt Diebner, physicist
- Walter Dornberger, German army rocket scientist
- Hermann Goring, Chief of the Luftwaffe
- Otto Hahn, physicist
- Werner Heisenberg, physicist
- Heinrich Himmler, SS Chief
- Adolf Hitler, Reichschancellor
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, SS Security Service chief
- Günther von Kluge, Field Marshal
- Karl Albrecht Oberg, SS commander in Paris
- Otto Skorzeny, legendary Waffen-SS commando
- Albert Speer, Head of Armaments
- Franz Stangl, SS Gruppenfuhrer
- Kurt Zeitzler, Army Chief of Staff
[edit] Japan
- Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
- Hideyoshi Obata, General on Saipan
- Takijiro Onishi, Admiral of the tokkōtai (Kamikaze) squadrons
- Hiroshi Oshima, General and ambassador to Germany
- Asaiki Tamai, Commander of a kamikaze unit
- Isoroku Yamamoto, Grand Admiral of the Combined Fleet
- Seki Yukio, Kamikaze pilot
[edit] USA
- Henry Arnold, General, United States Army. Commanding officer in charge of the U.S. Army Air Force.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, General, United States Army. Supreme Allied Commander of the European Theater of Operations.
- Leslie Groves, General, United States Army. Director of the Manhattan Project.
- W. Averell Harriman, ambassador to the USSR
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Captain, United States Navy. Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Armanno, a Halsey-class guided missile destroyer.
- Ernest King, Commander-in-Chief, United States Navy. Chief of Naval Operations.
- Douglas MacArthur, General, United States Army. Commander of Allied Forces, Southwest Pacific Theater of Operations.
- George Marshall, General, United States Army. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Joseph McCarthy, 'future' United States Senator (killed in combat)
- Marilyn Monroe, 'future' actress.
- George S. Patton, General, commander of US forces in France
- Elvis Presley, 'future' rock star.
- Jackie Robinson, 'future' baseball player with the U.S. 761st Tank Battalion
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States.
- Raymond Spruance, Admiral, United States Navy. Commander of the Combined Pacific Task Force.
- Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War.
[edit] USSR
- Lavrenty Beria, Head of NKVD
- Ivan Konev, General, Red Army
- Igor Kurchatov, physicist
- Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, People's Commissar of the Navy
- Georgy Malenkov, CPSU member
- Lev Mekhlis, political chief of the Red Army
- Vyacheslav Molotov, Foreign Minister
- Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the CPSU
- Semyon Timoshenko, Defense Minister
- Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev, Admiral, Sea of Okhotsk
- Georgy Zhukov, General, Red Army
