I will never forget coming home from work to see that a plane had hit one of the World Towers. I will never forget watching the second plane hit live. I will never forget watching the World Towers fall, one after another. I will never forget the thousands of people who died. I will never forget that when I went to a website I was an admin at, and one of my favorite forums on the web, the people who owned the website and forum locked it down and removed my admin access because they didn’t want us Americans spewing our rhetoric all over their forum that day. I will never forget any of it. And you shouldn’t either.
Captain William Carter has a long and distinguished history serving America. In this third story published by Raconteur Press, he serves as one of Carlson’s Marine Raiders in World War II, fighting the Japanese in the island hopping campaign all the way to war’s end. And he absolutely never goes to Japanese Manchuria to hijack a shipment of weapons taking their “Last Ride on the Asia Express.” The Asia Express was shut down years ago, and the Marine Raiders don’t even exist anymore. So none of that happened. History is clear on that point. But if you want to read about a Marine Raider mission that never happened, check out the Big Ones…
The Big Ones has been doing well on the World War II History list on Amazon. And the Alternate History and Military Historical Fiction lists. In it you can find stories like what could have happened if the Pearl Harbor didn’t bungle the radar report. Stories about viruses, both German and Japanese, and what could have happened if the Fuhrer made his date with that briefcase bomb. There are stories of Bismarck, and Yamato, and airplanes, oh my. All of them very interesting what ifs.
Why would the Japanese send one of the three largest submarines in the world to Manchuria to load up on enough fuel to sail around the world? What would it take for America to send Carlson’s Marine Raiders on one last raid into Manchuria? What could make the Japanese put together the fastest express train in Manchuria for one last run? Get the Big Ones from Raconteur Press, an alternate history anthology of World War II, to find out what never happened on the “Last Ride on the Asia Express.” Or did it?
The Big Ones just dropped. Battles we never fought. Ships we failed to sink. Someone got a cold. Someone failed to stop a plan. History hinges on things like this. What would happen if history was just a little different? Find out in The Big Ones, available now from Raconteur Press.




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