Trinity

by Martin M. McShane

Even while war was raging from London to Leningrad, it was clear by November 1943 that Nazi Germany was sliding toward inevitable defeat. The final battles of World War II were being played out with the end result in no doubt; the Nazis were going to be beaten, it was just a matter of time. The only thing that could save Hitler were his much vaunted ‘Wunderwaffen’, Wonder Weapons, but he had missed that boat in 1939. It was now time for Politicians to focus their minds on what was going to happen after the war was over. Those Partisans who had fought the Nazis wanted revenge but more than that they wanted power. Freedom Fighters of every nation were determined to rule once the Nazis were driven from their lands. However, the Americans, the Soviets and the British had plans of their own for what would happen after the Nazis were despatched. Everybody, it seemed, wanted their share of the spoils after the fighting was done. In anticipation of the victory to come, the United States of America, the Soviet Union and Britain held a series of so-called ‘Peace Conferences’; their aim to divide up post-war Europe between them. And so, after battling the Nazis together as Allies, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill faced one another across the negotiating table. This was their new battlefield. Just prior to the final Peace Conference in Potsdam, it came to light that not only had Joseph Stalin entered into a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide them with oil and steel he was planning to double-cross his Western Allies and invade Europe. Upon discovery of this treachery the American and British leaders drew up plans to drop an Atomic Bomb on Moscow, thereby killing Stalin and putting an end to the Soviet Union and the scourge of Bolshevism. Little did America realise but they and the Soviet Union were about to become adversaries in a deadly game of Nuclear Armageddon but not for the reasons history would record.

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 8, 2020