Combat Monsters
Henry Herz
Beschreibung
Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets-both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju?This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the "e;unreality"e; of war itself. Each story-and two poems-feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history. Dragons rise and fall, witches cast deadly spells, mermaids reroute torpedoes, and all manner of "e;monsters"e; intervene for better or worse in the global turmoil of World War II.Together, Combat Monsters challenge the very definition of monstrous, with the brutality of war as a sobering backdrop.
