"Armistice" by Harry Turtledove

    "Armistice" by Harry Turtledove is the 3rd volume of his Hot War Trilogy.
     The whole thing is based on the Harry Truman of the story
deciding to atomic bomb the Chinese city/transportation hub
supplying North Korea.
This causes the 3rd World War.  Russia bombs US and International cities. Goodbye Seattle, the Golden Gate Bridge,
a portion of Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York City.
So long Paris and a few other great cities.  So of course
the USA bombs Russia right back and Moscow is a thing of the
past but that was in the first two volumes, "Bombs Away" and
  "Fallout".  Truman though has lost his wife and daughter in
DC along with the Congress and a lot of the rest of the
government.   Harry T. gets even with Stalin eventually with
an H-bomb.
     I may have to re-read this but Turtledove is usually a
great read and holds up to continued examination.  The books
cover the defeat of the Japanese, the Chinese Communist
revolution and does so via the experiences not of Truman
but of the soldiers fighting on both sides, the wives they
left behind and some folks merely looking for a place to be
and be left alone.
       The Armistice is negotiated between Truman and Molotov.
       But this really shows the horrors of war and of  being
a civilian in a warlike nation.
I would read it and its earlier volumes again.
bliss
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