Bøker av Stephen Sokol

The year is 1941, and the Axis is victorious everywhere. The Axis powers: Germany, Italy, and the Soviet UnionThe Allied powers: British Empire, United States of America, Japan Gibraltar is about to fall. Once it does, the Axis forces will spill over to Morocco. The Wehrmacht is about to land in Tripoli, and the Anglo-Americans are pouring reinforcement into Western North Africa. A titanic battle is about to erupt. The outcome of the battle will decide if the Axis can reign supreme on land in the Western Hemisphere. On the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey will soon be invaded by the German and Russian forces, while the Red Army is poised to advance into Iran. Rommel continues his offensive into Cyrenaica and approaches the Egyptian border. The battle for the Suez Canal will decide the fate of Africa as much as the Battle for French North Africa. From Soviet-occupied Persia will erupt a battle for yet another threatened British territory. The jewel of the Empire, India, will soon be invaded by Stalin's minions. If the Axis can win there, the battle for Eurasia will draw to a close. A stalemate has developed in the Far East between the Red Army and the Imperial forces, but Japan is living on borrowed time. The Red Army is a lot stronger and has a lot better forces on land. The non-stop flow of fresh troops and tanks will surely overwhelm the imperial forces. The fight for Manchuria and the Maritimes Provinces will soon be decided unless something significant happens. And yet, the outcome of the war is undecided. The Axis can win all it wants on land in Eurasia; the Allied nations of Japan, the UK, and the USA control the sea, and they are quite safe on their islands and protected by their powerful fleets. The United Kingdom stands defiant and resist the German forces. America, the arsenal of democracy, is finally in the conflict, supplying weapons, resources, and support to Japan and the British. The Axis is victorious, but it has not yet won the war.

The year is 1943. The Pacific War rages from the Gulf of Bengal to the Solomon Islands and from China to Hawaii. Many battles have been fought, and the Japanese Empire has reached the high tide of its conquest phase. The Allied counter-offensive is now about to begin. The Japanese operation in the South Seas, supposed to destroy the Allied presence in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, has not reached its objective. A month into the powerful offensive, the battle's outcome remains in the balance. As the Imperial Navy and Army's supplies wanes down and their casualties mount, the Allies finally stopped their advances in the Kokoda Track and Milne Bay. A naval victory has also been achieved, and now the entire theater is ripe for MacArthur's and Admiral Spruance's counter-offensive. The Imperial Army faces a major disaster in Burma as Indian and Chinese forces bear down on it. The Japanese units are suffering from supply and reinforcement issues, and it will take a miracle to turn the situation around before the Empire loses all of Burma. Grand Admiral Yamamoto has moved a large chunk of the Imperial Navy to Johnson Islands, a base a little over one thousand kilometers from Hawaii, in order to avoid the relentless American bombing raids on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese can no longer support a fleet in Hawaii but still need to stay close to prevent the enemy from landing back in forces in the archipelago and retaking the islands. Losing Oahu would be a major disaster for the Japanese defensive perimeter and a major boost to American offensive capabilities in the central Pacific, unhinging everything. Yamamoto is thus resolved to face off with the getting-larger-by-the-day American fleet building up in San Diego. This is the story of the Pacific War.

The year is 1943. The Japanese offensive in the South Seas is underway, and the Allies are getting desperate. Yamamoto's forces have already re-occupied New Georgia and landed back in Guadalcanal, pushing General Vandermeer's Allied forces into the mountainous Kavo Range in the middle of the island. In New Guinea, the Imperial Army continues to push forward into the Kokoda Track and has reached the village of Menari, while in Milne Bay, the fighting had morphed into a stalemate. A big naval battle looms large for the control of Guadalcanal's sea lanes. Admiral Chester Nimitz has no choice but to sail supplies to the beleaguered forces on the island, or they will have to surrender. Yamamoto and his dreaded Imperial Navy awaits to give battle. Things are gloomy for the cause of liberty, and the situation has completely reverted back in Japan's favor. Yamamoto holds the initiative and seems to have all the best cards in his hands. And yet, all is not as good as it seems for Japan. The SE and RO offensives have been executed with a supply surge that will be hard to maintain for the Empire, and the rest of the realm is suffering greatly from the priority given to the South Seas. In South East Asia and Southern China, the Imperial Army can only retreat in disarray facing the Nationalist Chinese. They lack in everything, from food to ammunition to oil. In the Indian Ocean, things are much the same. The Imperial Navy has the ships to oppose British Admiral Summerville but not the fuel. A desperate retreat to Singapour is planned by the newly-named admiral after Kondo's death, Kishi Hata. Japan has no more ships to defend its islands in the Central Pacific. The Grand Admiral has gambled everything away to the South Seas. American Admiral Marc Mitscher is under orders to raid deep into the enemy realm to force Yamamoto to transfer ships back to the area to relieve the pressure on the South Seas. His fleet glides silently toward the Marshall Islands. Climatic land battles are about to happen in Guadalcanal, in the Kokoda Track, and in Milne Bay, while at sea, the showdown is imminent between Nimitz's U.S. Pacific Fleet and the Combined Fleet. This is the story of the Pacific War.

The year is 1939. The World rocks with the news of the signing of the Germano-Soviet pact. A dark veil soon falls on Europe as Poland is invaded and destroyed by the overwhelming forces of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. France and the United Kingdom can only sit by and watch the two military juggernauts obliterate the Polish state. No one believes the two totalitarian regimes can agree in the long term as their ideologies completely contradict each other. Russia wants influence in the Balkans, has eyes on Finland, and wants an opening to the Mediterranean. Germany needs Romanian oil to keep its war machine operational, and Hitler is adamant about not letting the Bolsheviks gain another inch of ground in Europe. At least not more than he has already given out in the treaty of non-aggression signed before the Polish campaign. The year is 1940. The French campaign unfolds with a disaster for the Allies, and the Germans win an incredible victory over the combined forces of the United Kingdom and France. British forces narrowly escape to their island with the remnants of their armies, and France surrenders. The Germans occupy half of the country. It seems that the swastika will conquer the world, especially with the Russian bear watching its back. All the while, the Battle of England rages between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force. The fate of the last free nation of Europe hangs in the balance. Will the courageous Brits and their new Prime Minister Winston Churchill prevail? And then something happens in Asia. Russo-Japanese again attack each other at Khalkin Gol, as they did a year earlier. Only this time, Stalin feels quite secure with his German alliance and decides that he has had enough of Imperial Japan in Manchuria. Red Army troops are sent east while Japanese Imperial forces mobilize throughout the Empire. War is all but unavoidable between the two powers. Germano-Soviet talks are organized in August 1940. The subject is nothing less than the Soviet Union's potential entry as a third Axis Power during World War II. The negotiations include a two-day conference in Berlin between Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Adolf Hitler, and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The two powers will try to agree on a formal alliance to divide the world. All the while, Great Britain fights for its very survival, and America does nothing. The fate of liberty hangs in the balance.

The Empire built by Haakon the Great is no more. It's 4124, and the Human race has spread to the stars in four different star clusters by achieving the speed of light and wormholes. A civil war has broken out between the different human enclaves to see who will be the next emperor of humanity. The Ptolemy and Hadesian Star Nations are invading Elysium, allied with New America from the Alpha Perseis Cluster. Large battles are being fought in star systems between former comrades of the Imperial Fleet. In space, battleships unload their powerful weapons at each other while giant battles mechas fight for control of the ground. The opportunity is too great for the evil Cybernetic forces in the Caldwell 14 Star Cluster. Having fought - and lost - a terrible war against the Empire two hundred years ago, they are gathering for a return engagement against humanity. A thousand years ago, Haakon has dreamed and foreseen a terrible time for humanity. The Black Death is coming to consume all, and his Empire will not be there to fight it.