1945 by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen

Zipping through Gingrich & Forstchen's 1945, not too shabby. Obligatory partisan praise of torpedo-bomber pilot George H. W. Bush (who in this timeline signed a ban on the importation of "assault weapons" in ‘88); sly dig at gun control by pointing out, to the raid's leader's amusement, that the target of a certain Nazi commando raid (led by Otto by-gods Skorzeny) is in an area disarmed by government decree. Point(s) of historical divergence not exactly as I speculated. There is a Plot and I won't give it away - though if you lay hands on a copy and glance at the maps in the first few pages, there it is. Half through, must recommend.

394 - Thursday, 29 January 2004:

Blasted through the last third of 1945, a little too bogged down in technical detail at times but still entertaining. No sign of a sequel, though the last words in the book are TO BE CONTINUED.

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