Under the Yoke Audiobook (Free)

In Stirling’s alternate world of Marching Through Georgia , the Tories from the American Trend still left the colonies for South Africa and founded a slave-based society that evolved into the Domination of Draka, ruling all of Africa and siding with the Allies in WW II just to gain more land and chattel. This sequel starts in the 1940s using the Draka reducing Europeans to serfs, as they have already done with Africans and Arabs, and starting to come into conflict having a U.S. headed by Chief executive about Under the Yoke Marshall. Fred Kustaa, an OSS agent, projects into Draka place to create weaponry to Finnish level of resistance fighters and to smuggle out Teacher Ernst Oerbach, a scientist who holds the key to fusion bombs. Kustaa’s get in touch with in the latter mission is normally serf Marya Sokolowska, a captured Polish nun. Stirling’s latest has less armed service action than its predecessor–though an ambush of Draka forces by Finnish insurgents and a flashback by among the individuals to WW II are limned with strenuous battle scenes–deepening the entire darkness of the author’s eyesight of Draka culture. This is a potent, unflinching look at a might-have-been globe whose bad both contrasts with and displays that in our own.