''The Children's War'' is a 2001

alternate history Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As ...

novel by J.N. Stroyar. It was followed by the sequels '' A Change of Regime'' and '' Becoming Them''. The book was the long form winner of the

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in 2001.

Background

The

point of divergence Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As ...

happens in 1941 when

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

astrologer Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions ...

convinced him that attacking the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

was a bad idea and the

German nuclear weapons program Nazi Germany undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These were variously called () or (). The first effort started in April 1939, ju ...

saw better progress. Fifty years later, the truce between

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

, the Soviet Union, and the

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is still holding. The main character, Peter Halifax, finds himself betrayed by the British underground and forced into a life as a

slave Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ...

to a Nazi household, but later escapes to the Polish resistance.

Characters

* Peter Halifax/Alan Yardley (aliases for Niklaus Adolf Chase) * Richard Traugutt (alias for Ryszard Przewalewski) * Zosia Król * Karl Vogel * Elspeth Vogel * Julia Hoffmeier * Katerina Kalischer

Literary critique

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'' described ''The Children's War'' as "a brutal look at what might have been and a reminder of the price of freedom."

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External links

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''The Children's War'' on Google Books
2001 American novels 2001 speculative fiction novels American speculative fiction novels American alternate history novels Alternate Nazi Germany novels Sidewise Award for Alternate History–winning works {{2000s-ah-novel-stub

Background

Characters

Literary critique

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