World War II. The great powers were at one another's throats. Armiesclashed across rolling countryside. Air forces sowed death from above.Then, in 1942, everything changed. A new front opened in World WarII—when an alien race attacked the Earth...

In his extraordinary alternate-history epic, Harry Turtledove createdthe acclaimed Worldwar saga. Now, in the Colonization series,what began as war has evolved into decades of epic struggles andrebellions erupting against the invaders known as the Race.

As the 1960s begins, one of the great powers explodes a nuclear strikeagainst the Race's colonization fleet. As she did a generation before,Germany goes to war over Poland, this time against the Race.Retaliation is swift and deadly, leaving much of the Third Reich in ruins. TheUnited States has used its fast-developing military technology to lockthe invaders into a standoff. And in China, the ragtag revolutionaryarmy of Mao Tse-tung—armed with Russian-supplied, German-madeweapons—may prove the Race's most intractable enemy of all.

On Earth, the alien invaders find themselves confronting a far morecomplex and difficult species than any they have encountered before.From the hatred between the Jews and the Deutsche to the irrepressibleinventiveness of human technology, the reptilian invaders realize theyhave met creatures that cannot be tamed. Ultimately, only superiorfirepower may keep Earth under the Empire's control-or may destroy theworld.

Despite its military superiority, the Race still fears itunderestimates its foes. While uprisings and aftershocks of war shake the planet,while the Race's troops are undermined by ginger addiction, one nation plotsa stunning counterattack.

With its sprawling cast of characters, startling plot twists, anduncanny sense of history, Colonization: Aftershocks is anothermarvelous achievement from Harry Turtledove—the author USA Todaycalls "the leading author of alternate history."