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From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternative history, uses a book of magic, the Problem, epic combat, and eager options. 1945: Russian soldiers have joined Berlin, and are involved in a chaotic orgy of rape, theft, and vengeance. Wehrmacht official Hasso Pemsel, a lifetime career soldier on the losing end-of the best battle ever, flees from the sniper's bullet, discovering herself hurled right into a mystical, wonderful world of wizards, unicorns, and dragons. He associates himself with the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli there, and Velona, their goddess in human kind, providing them his understanding of weaponry and combat within their genocidal battle against a race of small, swarthy barbarians referred to as Grenye.