Drake's Drum

By the spring of 1946, war raged again across the globe. Britain was drawn inexorably into the maw of the conflict, but her leaders knew that another war, where the country would once more have no choice but to use up its accumulated capital, would inevitably see it become the dependent of another power.But the fight did not progress as expected and nor did the fortunes of any of the belligerents.Drake's Drum: The Reckoning is the second part of a three book series that recounts an immersive, thoroughly researched alternate timeline where politics, conflict and the history of the 20th Century turn out very differently from what we know.

On Sunday 25th April 1948, Boston, Massachusetts, became the first city in the world to suffer attack with an atomic weapon. It is now universally acknowledged that although Commander Eric Brown of the Royal Navy was the first man to break the sound barrier, he was not the first human being to exceed the speed of sound in controlled flight. The Dutch author Anne Frank, who won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, based her first novels on her experiences of life in Nazi occupied Holland. The acclaimed Drake's Drum series continues in this gripping third volume.