The Knight's Gambit

by Scott Ward

Overview

"THE KNIGHT'S GAMBIT" is the alternate history novel of the German battleship Tirpitz, Allied convoy PQ17 and the Battle of Bear Island. In Book 1 of the Malta Fulcrum Alternate History Series, "OPERATION HERKULES", the Axis powers have seized the Mediterranean island of Malta in a daring airborne operation, mauling the British Royal Navy in the process. With his supply lines secured, Field Marshall Rommel and his famed Afrika Korp set their sights on Cairo and the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Now the western Allies are determined to avenge the Malta defeat and recapture the strategic initiative by delivering desperately needed Lend-Lease supplies to the Soviet Union with convoy PQ17. The Germans are just as determined to stop them. Tirpitz sails to destroy the convoy. But the Allied battleships HMS Duke of York and USS Washington have set a trap for Tirpitz, and the men and ships of PQ17 are the bait! The chessboard is set for the largest fleet action of the European war!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156808540
Publisher:	Scott Ward
Publication date:	09/11/2016
Series:	The Malta Fulcrum WW2 Alternate History Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	727,783
File size:	228 KB

About the Author

I am Scott Ward, Author of The Malta Fulcrum WW2 Alternate History Series. Book 1 is "OPERATION HERKULES" The AHN of the Axis invasion of Malta. Book 2 is "THE KNIGHT's GAMBIT", the AHN of the battleship TIRPITZ and Convoy PQ17. I am an IBM Software Group Manager by day, Alternate History author by night. A life long interest in history led me to the story of the Mediterranean island of Malta in the late 1990's and I quickly came to see the Axis failure to capture the island as one of our enemies major strategic blunders in WW2. I read all I could find on the siege of Malta from its desultory beginnings with the Italian entry to the war in the spring of 1940, right through the lifting of the siege in late 1942. Eight years of research and writing were followed by three years trying to get published and I am so grateful to Amazon for this AMAZING opportunity to share my work with others of similar interests. "THE GATES of VICTORY" is the planned 3rd book and is the AHN of The Battle of El Alamein. Starting with "OPERATION HERKULES" I plan to re-write the history of the 2nd World War.