The war was supposed to stay limited. By 1943, that illusion is collapsing.
Odessa has become one of the decisive points of the Black Sea war. Soviet commanders struggle to hold the city while Romanian and German forces tighten the front, Allied supply routes grow more dangerous, and every train, convoy, aircraft, and shipment of ammunition can alter the course of the campaign.
As air raids hammer the port and the roads into Odessa begin to close, soldiers, sailors, pilots, railway workers, intelligence officers, and civilians are forced to make decisions no plan anticipated. Some are fighting to keep the city alive. Others are trying to keep an army from being trapped inside it. Beyond Odessa, the consequences are beginning to reshape a much larger war.
From contested sea lanes and burning rail yards to street fighting, collapsing supply networks, and command rooms where hours can matter more than divisions, the struggle becomes a test of endurance, judgment, and survival.
The Odessa Front is Book Six of The Long War of 1940, an alternate-history military saga combining large-scale combat, naval warfare, air operations, strategy, logistics, and the human cost of a war that has departed completely from the history we know.
Genre: Thriller
Odessa has become one of the decisive points of the Black Sea war. Soviet commanders struggle to hold the city while Romanian and German forces tighten the front, Allied supply routes grow more dangerous, and every train, convoy, aircraft, and shipment of ammunition can alter the course of the campaign.
As air raids hammer the port and the roads into Odessa begin to close, soldiers, sailors, pilots, railway workers, intelligence officers, and civilians are forced to make decisions no plan anticipated. Some are fighting to keep the city alive. Others are trying to keep an army from being trapped inside it. Beyond Odessa, the consequences are beginning to reshape a much larger war.
From contested sea lanes and burning rail yards to street fighting, collapsing supply networks, and command rooms where hours can matter more than divisions, the struggle becomes a test of endurance, judgment, and survival.
The Odessa Front is Book Six of The Long War of 1940, an alternate-history military saga combining large-scale combat, naval warfare, air operations, strategy, logistics, and the human cost of a war that has departed completely from the history we know.
Genre: Thriller
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