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Between the Sledgehammer and the Swastika

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1941. Operation Barbarossa was never launched. Instead, Hitler’s Reich turns its full might westward, crushing France and driving the British into exile. Europe trembles beneath the iron boots of the Third Reich, while the Soviet Union watches from the shadows — stronger, colder, and waiting. In the chaos of this new world, Raed Khaled al-Masri, a 33-year-old Arab intelligence officer, walks a razor’s edge. Officially, he is a liaison for the Reich’s Middle Eastern bureau. Secretly, he serves Stalin’s NKVD — gathering intelligence from the heart of Berlin itself. Calm, cunning, and haunted by the ruins of his homeland, Raed must play both sides in a world devouring itself. Each coded message, each whisper in the dark, could mean victory… or death. As Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union prepare for an inevitable clash — a war that will burn the entire planet — Raed faces a choice: loyalty to ideology, or loyalty to humanity. Because between the Sledgehammer of Stalin and the Swastika of Hitler, there is no middle ground… only survival.
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