The Burning Continent: Book 2 of The European War

ONE WAR HAS ENDED. ANOTHER HAS BEGUN. AND THE MEN WHO SURVIVED THE FIRST ARE ABOUT TO LEARN THAT FRANCE WAS THE EASY ONE.



Autumn 1939. France has fallen. Britain stands alone on an island that does not yet know how alone it is, with a Channel that is twenty-one miles wide and a navy that has to be everywhere at once.



In Berlin, a German general named Reinhardt is awarded a Knight’s Cross and reassigned to a problem he does not yet have a map for. In London, Churchill counts the ships he has and the ships he is going to need. In Washington, the side door is open, and the convoys have begun. In Warsaw, an American intelligence officer named Kowalczyk has married a Polish schoolteacher named Katarzyna, and the question of how to get her out of the country is becoming the only question he can think about.



The war is moving. The war is moving east, and west, and into the Atlantic, and the men who thought they understood the war they were fighting are about to discover that the war was never the one they were fighting.



Inspired by a real WWII fighter pilot’s family stories. Historically accurate aircraft, tanks, ships, and tactics. The second book in The European War, a sweeping alternate history series that began with THE UNNECESSARY WAR.



For readers of Jeff Shaara, Harry Turtledove, and Newt Gingrich.



If you loved the alternate Pearl Harbor of A DATE WITH INFAMY and the Pacific Theater of THE GATHERING STORM, step into the European Theater that should never have happened — and the war that came a year early, from a direction no one expected.