The Great Atomic War continues, with the USSR and the United States exchanging bombs in the early 1950s, before true intercontinental bombers and missiles would make things REALLY hot. Turtledove tells the story from the perspectives of various Soviets, Americans, Brits, Hungarians and other characters just trying to survive as both sides try to win battles going on in Europe and Korea by hurting the other side's cities. While Turtledove does a great job of creating characters there definitely seems to be something lacking in his knowledge of air defense. Radar-guided aircraft would have been a bane to lumbering B-29/Tu-4s, not to mention flak barriers and even flak rockets. Still, a hard book to put down...
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