Pacific Twilight is over

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In a way your right its not an action packed book like a lot of the more recent alternative histories (ala turtledove) are, it is more of a commentary on the cold war by reversing the victors of WW2 and showing that no matter who won the world wasnt biggest enough for two.

What makes its a classic is that it has a book inside a book about an alternative history of WW2 which thw characters in the book read and how it looks at the politics of the time.

The US spilt down the middle (just like cold war germany) between Japan and germany, political tension and the gradual rebirth and rise of the US (just like Japan in our time) under the teutalage of a somewhat benevolent overlord, secret plans for war, the death of hitler and the power struggles afterwards, are what makes it such an intresting read.