Olympiad

By: James Philip

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

It is July 1976 and history hangs heavily over Germania - the Welthauptstadt – ‘World Capital’ of the Europa Reich with its great Olympic Park built over the top of and dwarfing the footprint of Adolf Hitler’s 1936 stadia. Thirty years into the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Third Reich, the Summer Olympiad is returning to the city after a gap of four decades. For the first time since the Second World War the first city of the Reich is being opened up to the world media. While most people look forward to a festival of sport, and the Nazi regime to an unprecedented orgy of positive propaganda few can guess that the churning tides of past, present and future history in the making, will violently awaken the darkest nightmares of recent history. Thus, as the Olympians toil, medals are won and lost, terror stalks the streets, nobody is safe, terrible secrets begin to surface and an American President travels to the heart of the Reich for the first time since the war contemplating the unthinkable, because that may yet be the only way to live in peace with the monstrous abomination of the Nazi Empire. History, as they say, never really goes away and now, at last, it may be that it has finally come back to haunt the masters of the Empire of Evil. What now for the children of the great generation who won the war?

This reproofed and reformqatted edition of OLYMPIAD was published on 21 April 2025.

Very imaginative alternative history

Not a fan of virtual voice. Lots of annoying mispronunciations of German words. On the other hand, it was free. And it was a great story. I thought it ended abruptly

Bad Narrator

AI narrator detracts from an otherwise great alternate universe story. This is the second book in the Europa Reich series. Moonshot, the first book in the series, is extensively referenced in this book. Both postulate a universe where Germany doesn't declare war on the US and wins WW II at a great cost. The ramifications are projected into 1976 both in the US and Germany. I would recommending reading Moonshot first. It's the story of the German moon landings with an undercurrent of political intrigue that continues in Olympiad.

The AI virtual voice is terrible.

Ok this is the second book of the series, that has a good concept and is thought some what well for Alternate History buffet like me. However, the author has a terrible problem with run on sentence structure and thus the virtual reading is terrible. I was only able to understand parts of the story due to this. The first book has a real person reading the book, which honestly is a necessity.