Operation Herkules

OPERATION HERKULES is a Novel of Alternate History work of fiction and is Book I of The Malta Fulcrum WW2 Alternate History Series. It began with a question. Might WWII have gone differently had Hitler not made so many strategic blunders? From this sprang the idea of this novel of alternate history. In it we’ll meet many well-known and some lesser-known historical figures, but also purely fictional characters whose experiences reflect those whose ordinary lives were interrupted by extraordinary times. Kenneth Wiltshire, an American farm boy and volunteer pilot with the RAF, flies Spitfire fighters and fights for his life from Malta’s Ta Qali airfield. His English lover, the beautiful and mysterious Maggie Reed, toils in anonymity from Malta on Britain’s most vital wartime secret. Kuno Schact, German Army officer, is drafted as a last-minute replacement for the invasion. His dreams are haunted by fear that his two young sons will someday fight and die for the Third Reich. Roland Webster, Royal Navy gunnery officer; only combat gives him relief from remorse of his lost love Althea, killed in the London Blitz. Through their eyes and many others, we’ll live the Axis invasion of Malta in June 1942 and follow their adventures in subsequent novels as WWII is refought from a new point of reality. I have attempted to hew to a reasonable and plausible alteration of history.