Traveling Through 1936, I Know the Ending of World War II

【The author has a popular older work with over three million words.】 Lin Yue, a high school history teacher who died saving a student from drowning, woke up to find himself in the body of Hayes, a 1936 West Point graduate who had nearly drowned after falling into the Hudson River while drunk. But his mind held every memory of World War II: Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Midway, Normandy. Armed with this foreknowledge, he crushed his classmates in West Point tactical exercises, anticipated the incident in Tokyo, and wrote a warning report about Pearl Harbor in Washington. From a drunken laughingstock to someone personally added to Marshall’s watchlist, he used his knowledge of the future to change the course of the war, step by step. But every change to history came at a cost: his foreknowledge faded. The Midway task force began to veer off course, his foresight failed completely during the Guadalcanal campaign, and by the Battle of the Bulge, the future in his mind was gradually turning blank. How could he fight a war without knowing what was coming? This is Lin Yue’s story, and it is Hayes’s story too.