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The year is 1941. (Part 2: Chronicles Middle East and Russia) Tank commander Erich Walder is about to embark on the biggest land campaign in history. Operation Barbarossa will soon be launched. Adolf Hitler has decided to finish the Soviet Union once and for all. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, millions of soldiers are gathering on both sides to fight the battle to decide the fate of Europe and the outcome of the war. The German dictator will need his best Panzer divisions to fight the battle, and thus, the 2nd Panzer Division is recalled to Europe. Tank commander Erich Walder is poised to fight the Red Army one more time. Panzers against Soviet armor and the immensity of Mother Russia. Follow the tank commander's adventures as he leads his men in Russia, gets injured, and is almost killed several times. The Walder chronicles is the story of a simple soldier trying to survive and win for the Wehrmacht. This is the story of the Second World War and of Erich Walder.

The year is 1947. The Third World War is in full swing. The Soviet Union has attacked the Allies all over the map, and the Anglo-Americans are reeling back from serious defeats in Germany, Slovenia, and the rest of Central Europe. Over one million men are encircled in Berlin, and things look like the Red Army will roll over the old continent. The situation is only marginally better in Asia, with a few Allied victories in China and a potential counter-offensive by Douglas MacArthur. But overall, the situation is dire. The Soviets have overrun the Korean Peninsula except for a small defensive perimeter in a city called Pusan located in the country's southeast. In desperation, the Allies have recruited their former enemies to fight the red tide with them. First, they rearmed the Japanese forces that had been entangled with the red Army since its invasion of Manchuria. And then, in an incredible turn of events, they marshaled all the surrendered Geman forces back to war. For without the formerly vanquished Wehrmacht, there can be no victory over Stalin's hordes. The millions upon millions of Russian soldiers and spilling across the World like a disease that cannot be stopped unless something truly bold is done. The Allied manpower shortage can only be fixed by making a pact with the devil. General Manstein and Fuhrer Guderian are thus called back to service, along with all of the German war heroes like Adolf Galland and Erich Walder. A strong counter-offensive is quickly reorganized. The Anglo-Saxon forces adopt German tactics as Manstein's influence grows within the Allied high command. Hope surges again that victory, or at least stalemate, is attainable against the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Skorzeny is about to meet the great Stalin. His death is all but a foregone conclusion at the end of his Communist executioners. Rommel is liberated from his Turkish prison to take back arms along with his Middle Eastern Army. At the same time, General Devers tries to hang on in Berlin against millions of Soviet soldiers encircling his beleaguered city. Finally, nuclear fire is never too far from the battlefield, with American President Harry Truman toying with the complete and utter annihilation of the USSR with an attack so terrible that it defies the imagination. The only thing holding his decision is the belief that Soviet Russia also has the Atomic bomb. This is the story of the Second World War

The year is 1942. The war rages all across the Pacific theater. Battles have been fought from the Hawaiian Islands to the city of Kunming in China, in Australia, and in New Guinea. Cities have been destroyed, raided, and many areas lie in ruins. Large naval battles have been fought, and dozens upon dozens of ships have been sunk to the bottom. Imperial Japan reigns supreme everywhere. The Allies are almost out of ships. But America has not yet given up on ultimate victory. Its factories are producing ships at a never before seen speed. Large fleets will soon roam the seas. And in the meantime, the outmatched Allied forces resist and fight back everywhere-Australia, New Guinea, the Solomons Islands, the U.S. West Coast even. And Imperial Japan tries its best to destroy them. As November 1942 opens, the fight is brought to the remote islands of Guadalcanal and Tahiti. The U.S. Navy sends its beleaguered (and outnumbered) ships southward while Yamamoto is anchored with most of its naval strength in Oahu. More ships soon arrive from Japan as the Grand Admiral is bound to reinforce Admiral Inoue's 2nd Fleet in the face of the enemy surge. The Empire cannot afford to lose the Solomon Islands and the South Seas. As both fleets converge, another large naval battle looms. And it won't take long for the Japanese Grand Admiral to realize that the U.S. West Coast is open to attack, as most of its ships are gone to fight elsewhere. In the middle of it all, war heroes fight the battles that will decide victory. A brave Japanese destroyer captain, soldiers on the ground in Guadalcanal and China, a reckless American Submarine captain, and both a Japanese and a U.S. aces fight other planes in the sky above for mastery of the air. This is the story of the Second World War in the Pacific

The year is 1943. The war in the Pacific enters its 11th month, and there is no sign of it slowing down. The Japanese Empire has conquered most of the theater, except for Australia and a few outlying islands in the Solomons that the Allies have been able to liberate. General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz are slowly regaining the initiative in the conflict, having met with success in the Battle of Guadalcanal and New Georgia. The U.S. Pacific Fleet has moved south and surprised Isoroku Yamamoto, while the Nipponese Navy commander has most of its fleet in Hawaii. The Imperial Navy will not stay idle, and a new admiral is named to take over for the south seas theater replacing defeated Admiral Inoue. Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa has just arrived in New Britain with a powerful fleet that includes several battleships and the mighty main fleet carrier Kaga. Another great naval battle looms for the control of the Solomon Islands, for Japan cannot permit the Allies to gain more ground and threaten its main base at Rabaul. In Northwestern Australia, a Japanese Army surge has just reconquered Derby and the Imperial Guards commander, General Nishimura, looks to consolidate its conquest with an advance on Broome and further down the Aussie coast. In China, the Nationalists have finally been able to repulse the Japs with a great victory near their capital of Chongqing. The Imperial forces are in full retreat toward French Indochina and its foothold on the Burma Road. The Tacoma shipyard is still a smoking ruin after the Japanese raid, and the Americans are preparing their revenge and their next move. A great bombing raid is being planned on Pearl Harbor to interdict the critical harbor for Yamamoto. And then some more. Battles in the Indian Ocean, as Admiral Kondo seeks to destroy the British holed up in Addu Atoll, the French looking to liberate their Polynesian islands, and MacArthur about to launch his offensive in Northern New Guinea. The Pacific is burning. This is the story of the Second World War.

The year is 1939. (Part 1: Chronicles from September 1939 to summer 1940) Tank commander Erich Walder is about to embark on a very long war that will have him fight all across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The Third Reich has just declared war on Poland, igniting the Second World War, with the UK and France following suit to help the Poles. Erich Walder was one of the main characters in the 12-book series Blitzkrieg Alternate. Book 13 is the book about his story in more detail. More Guderian memoirs, more tank battles, and more Skorzeny adventures. The story is woven into book 1, Blitzkrieg Europa, and will help enrich the story even more. Some of the writings from book 1 are in this new account, so it will be the same story but seen from a different angle. Follow the tank commander's adventures as he leads his men in Poland, France, French North Africa, and Middle East campaigns. The Walder chronicles is the story of a simple soldier trying to survive and win for the Wehrmacht. This is the story of the Second World War.

The year is 1948. The Third World War is drawing to a close, one way or the other. The Soviet Union is about to launch its final offensive on the beleaguered Allies in France and Southern Italy. The Anglo-Americans-Germans are reeling back from serious defeats in Germany, Northern, and Central Italy. Over one million men were captured in Berlin, and things looks like Stalin will win his gamble in Europe. The situation is the opposite in Asia, with Genera MacArthur's major victory in Korea and Manchuria. The Red Army has lost over two million men in a gigantic battle of encirclement executed by the brilliant general. Only Harbin and Vladivostok are still in the Soviets' hands, while Japanese-American-Nationalist Chinese troops advance ever deeper into China against the Communists. As Stalin looks forward to his final victory in France, American President Truman toys with using the many atomic bombs that have been produced. His only hesitation comes from the fact that the enemy apparently also has the bomb. Will Stalin's bluff hold until the very end? General Manstein and Fuhrer Guderian, Adolf Galland, Erich Walder, Montgomery, Eisenhower, and countless others now fight together against an enemy so numerous that victory is only but a distant possibility. They fight against Zhukov and other Stalinist minions that threaten to envelop them into oblivion. Somewhere in Germany, Otto Skorzeny is still trying to rejoin Allied lines and let them know of Stalin's terrible secret. Rommel and Auchinleck, the two former mortal enemies, now work together to assault the soviets in the Caucasus. In Asia, McArthur fights alongside former enemy General Yamada and Chinese ally Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to vanquish the Red Army and Mao's Communist forces once and for all in Asia. Hanging in the balance is the future of the World. Will the forces of Communism win all of Europe and destroy the Allies? Or will President Truman take the terrible decision to erase the USSR from the map? Or else, how could the most terrible war in the history of humankind end? This is the story of the Second World War.

The year is 1943. Japan is cornered. The Empire is attacked on all sides. Pearl Harbor is being bombed to oblivion, while in Southern China its armies reel back in retreat. The Solomons are being slowly being liberated by the Allies, and Tahiti has been reconquered by the French. Strategically, the Empire is not faring well. The American submarine warfare campaign is starting to choke Japan's resources and the Imperial Fleet is feeling the pinch of the lack of oil and resources. America produces ships by the dozens every month while the Japanese shipyard struggles to keep a snail's pace of a few ships every other month. The outlook is not good, and the imperial forces do not seem to have an answer to mounting Allied power. And Japanese Grand Admiral Yamamoto has decided that enough was enough. Having to evacuate Pearl Harbor, he orders all able Japanese ships to the south seas. The goal is to confront and destroy the American fleet to end the Allied reconquest campaign once and for all. While the Allies are slowly regaining the initiative in the conflict under the leadership of MacArthur and Nimitz, a storm of steel and might is brewing with the Japanese Imperial Navy coming down on them. Fully aware of the Japanese moves because they can read their naval code, the two men will plan accordingly. An evacuation or a final battle is in the cards for the Allies. They will need to choose. Yamamoto prepares his next move in the defense of the Hawaiian Islands with the construction of a new naval base 1500 kilometers west of Oahu on Johnson Atoll, while the U.S. Navy is ready to move on Pearl from San Diego. In China, the Nationalists continue their offensive while the Japanese follow up with their retreat and hope to stop the Chinese. In the Indian Ocean, Admirals Somerville and Kondo are on a collision course for another battle. Americans on the west coast think themselves safe from Japanese raids. They are about to be reminded that Japan still has some bite. The war is far from over. This is the story of the Second World War.