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Final Impact

Axis of Time, Book 3

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Final Impact

By: John Birmingham
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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In the year 2021 a multinational fleet - experimenting with untested weapons technology - pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to adapt to new, high-tech killing tools and 21st-century ways of war.

For "uptimers" like Britain's Prince Harry and the men and women who serve aboard the supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton, war is a constant struggle with their own downtime allies, who are mired in ignorance and bigotry.

As the Allies counter the Nazi assault and set off for the coast of France, Japan begins to buckle; soon every battle will be played out in a lethal dance of might and intelligence, unholy alliances and desperate gambles, and each clash will be fought with the ultimate weapon: knowledge from the future.

Thanks to the historical records, all sides know that two superpowers will emerge, while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shifted on its axis, so none know who will survive or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingham brilliantly answers in his critically acclaimed adventure of war and imagination.

©2007 John Birmingham (P)2017 Audible, Inc. Adventure Genre Fiction Historical Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction Military War Stalin Imperialism Imperial Japan

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Great detail and plot changes, just sometimes hard to get over the poor accents. Story is amazing - the whole series.

Great series - shame about the poor accents

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Yes as an Australian the Aussie accent was a big let down but I thought highly of his other accents and was pleasantly surprised by his female voices pitch and tone.

Who would have thought that a book written over a decade ago would foresee Australia with nuclear subs, the Woomera class! Lol

Well done on the whole.

Excellent series

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I appreciate the narrator had a lot of ground to cover and Australian accents are notoriously tricky for non natives. But given the origins of the author you would think they could have, at least, checked on acceptable renderings of the names of the harbour side Sydney suburbs.
Bondi...no.
Vauclees...no.
And I can't even bring myself to repeat his butchery of Woolloomooloo.
Enough for the brickbats, I guess a bouquet is in order for his effort at Curtin, he sounded as though he could be a 1940's Australian politician.
That all said, I have enjoyed the series, and there is the added interest in seeing how quickly the modern day content has aged.

8.5 out of 10 for performance.

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This trilogy is one of the best series of books that I have read. I have read the paper copies about 3 times and now listened to the Audible
Just superb.
Birmingham is one of the
Finest authors around.

John Birmingham’s masterpiece

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I've just finished the 3 books in this series, and they were all amazingly good. John Birmingham really is a master.

However, while I'm usually a fan of Jay Snyder, he really shouldn't have been chosen to do the narration for this series.
His attempts at Australian accents were cringeworthy (has he EVER actually listened to an Australian?).
Birmingham is an Australian, some of his most important characters are Australian and his books are very popular with Aussies, so Jay's mangling of the accent ruined parts of the listening experience, not only for me, but I'm sure for many others. Makes me wonder if other non-Aussie and non-American listeners had a similar problem.

Jay also had heaps of pronunciation 'misses', particularly of place names (e.g. Bondy instead of BondEYE for Bondi for goodness' sake!), but also of some other quite common words e.g. he had quarry rhyming with Harry. I started making a list of the most obvious mistakes, but gave up when the list was looked like stretching to a second page.

All in all though, very well worth the read (listen).

Brilliant series, but badly let down by narration

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