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Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.
This is a reread for me (4th or so time?), and second time doing so in audio. I like this reader (bit slow even for me, but otherwise good) and I always like doing extra-long reads in audio, because I'm soooo picky about readers, it means a longer time before I have to decide on a new audiobook. Anyway, Blackout/All Clear - I obviously love it, as evidenced by having reread it a few times already, but it still makes me chuckle every single time I read one of these books that they've invented time travel but not mobile phones. What's gonna happen between now and 2060, Connie?? What happens to the very concept of personal mobile communication??
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