SOLVED. Adult Sci-Fi novel in which the Axis Powers won WW2 and involves time travel to fix it. Spoiler. [s]

[Alison Rose]

(I'm posting this for an older relative who read this book a few years ago but is unsure if it was new or not, hoping someone can help him out!)

Basic plot is that it’s 1975 and the United States is being crushed between the victorious mega-states of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and reckons it has a few years, tops, before the Axis, which was somehow capable of dropping atomic bombs on its enemies in 1942, launches a full invasion of the world’s last democracy. The answer to their problem is time-travel – send a team back to before WW2 and somehow convince Britain not to surrender and the US not to stay on the sidelines.

This part would be considered a spoiler for some so: (view spoiler)[ The world they came from was itself the result of time-travellers from the 21st century of another original future sending agents back to their 1920s to ensure that the nightmare of world peace and human achievement under a semi-socialist League of Nations they’d been living under never came to pass. The rise of the Nazis (and Stalinist Russia) and the dominance of the Japanese military were their work, they were the source of the atomic bombs that would arrive in Germany from the future in 1942, and they were still tinkering away behind the scenes to create a world where the unforgivably oppressed rich families their 21st century could relocate to and enjoy the power and influence they’d had stolen from them. The time-travellers from 1975 succeed in their mission (sort of) and in the process create the history we’re familiar with. (hide spoiler)]

Any ideas would be appreciated!

[Bargle]

Maybe The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan?

Note to self: correct answer.

[Alison Rose]

Bargle wrote: "Maybe The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan?"

Ooh, I think that might be it! Thanks!