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La Brèche

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La Brèche	label	La Brèche
La Brèche	page	LaBreche
La Brèche	comment	La Brèche ("the breach") is a French science-fiction novel written by Christophe Lambert (not this one but a totally unrelated writer) and published in 2005.Its plot is set in 2060, where the American army knows how to use time travel. Time travel is especially used by an American television channel for a show named You Were There, filming famous events from the past. Then, the channel decide to realize an episode focussed on the landing on Omaha Beach during the Second World War, sending there a war reporter (Gary Hendershot) and an historian (Mitch Kotlowitz). And then, things go very wrong...
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La Brèche / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
La Brèche / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: The story ends like this, with Mitch witnessing an elite soldier and a pilot being sent to the past - after the end of the show - to provide help. Cota is replaced by a kind of synthetic man sent from the future.
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La Brèche / int_3d22397d	type	War Reenactors
La Brèche / int_3d22397d	comment	War Reenactors: Mitch is a very enthusiastic one and is even specialized in World Ward Two reenactments. It goes without saying that he is more than interested to be a part of the time travel to Omaha Beach... Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Mitch is a mild example. Most of the action of the book uses his knowledge of the landing on Omaha Beach, but he is first introduced in the story with his participation in a reenactment of a Chindits operation (from a totally different theater of the war).
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La Brèche / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
La Brèche / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: It is what Mitch and the TV show animators seems to think at the beginning.
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La Brèche / int_501de366	type	Temporal Paradox
La Brèche / int_501de366	comment	Temporal Paradox: Sending two 21th centuries guys to shoot the landing on Omaha Beach the morning of the 6th of July, 1944? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? When Mitch is stuck by fear on the beach, he meets the American General Norman Cota, who is shot when trying to reassure him. In the normal history, Cota survived the whole war, on Omaha Beach he managed to galvanize the American troops, leading them to eventually storm the German defenses on the beach. In the novel, his death triggers a defeat on the beach, then the Allies failed to join their forces which already reached Normandy; it ended with the defeat of the Allies in Europe... Or, not really. Until the closing of the portal that would be used by the heroes for their return in their present - scheduled for 2 p.m. the 6th of June - both timelines coexist. When the portal closes, only one will remain: if the Americans regain the advantage, the original timeline will stay, if the German are still the strongest, it will grant them victory in World War Two. That's why both futuristic sides sent drones, androids, and mecha to help the battle.
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La Brèche / int_549a7152	type	Godwin's Law of Time Travel
La Brèche / int_549a7152	comment	Godwin's Law of Time Travel: Cf. Time Paradox below.
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La Brèche / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
La Brèche / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Sort of. The novel is a satire of television. See also the Reality TV example below.
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La Brèche / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
La Brèche / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: See Temporal Paradox below. The example is literal: Gary and Mitch are sarcastically congratulated by a German mission control for the failure of the Omaha Beach landing.
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La Brèche / int_82b48dc	type	Stupid Jetpack Hitler
La Brèche / int_82b48dc	comment	Stupid Jetpack Hitler: It would have been a surprise if the cover of the book didn't feature Mecha painted like German tanks watching the sea next to officers and concrete blockhouse... Actually played with. The Mecha, androids, and robotic tanks sent to Omaha Beach aren't produced by German factories of The '40s, but are sent from 2060 by the Germans who still rule Europe since the Allies' defeat caused by the disaster of Omaha Beach. There are a few pages early in the book which show that this kind of technology isn't unknown in the main timeline of 2060.
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La Brèche / int_954b3c7b	type	Strong Flesh, Weak Steel
La Brèche / int_954b3c7b	comment	Strong Flesh, Weak Steel: Gary witnesses a Pakistani Child Soldier destroying an Indian Spider Tank with a Molotov Cocktail while escaping unharmed. He does the same to a German one near the end of the book.
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La Brèche / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
La Brèche / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel
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La Brèche / int_a863ef67	type	Cultured Warrior
La Brèche / int_a863ef67	comment	Cultured Warrior: Mitch is very surprised to discover that the army general responsible of the time-traveling project hung abstract paintings in his home (instead of historical / battle paintings).
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La Brèche / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
La Brèche / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass / Badass Bookworm: Mitch. Gary has a poor opinion of him at the beginning of the events (as the public: according to polls, more than an half of the audience believes than Mitch would die during the show), but changes his opinion when his knowledge of the place and the historical events saves them all.
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La Brèche / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
La Brèche / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Mitch is a mild example. Most of the action of the book uses his knowledge of the landing on Omaha Beach, but he is first introduced in the story with his participation in a reenactment of a Chindits operation (from a totally different theater of the war).
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La Brèche / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
La Brèche / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The story is about a Reality TV Show, mostly focusing on its action itself (with some scenes about its being made).
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La Brèche / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
La Brèche / int_c72af5a8	comment	Mini-Mecha: Small models are used by the German. Not a real spoiler, as they are featured on the cover.
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La Brèche / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
La Brèche / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Terminator during the description of German androids escaping a destroyed and burning bunker.
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La Brèche / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
La Brèche / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Before being sent to the past, Mitch mentioned he had once read an essay written by a Cloud Cuckoo Lander claiming that a battle against flying saucers happened above the small town near Omaha Beach. The writer of the book makes a blink-or-you-miss-it appearance near the end of the book, as a German defender of the area.
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La Brèche / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
La Brèche / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: The disappearance of most of the Omaha Beach photographs of Robert Capa has been orchestrated by the American army a few times before the show, which travel in time to steal them during their development. Why? Because Mitch appears in some of them.
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La Brèche / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
La Brèche / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Not only are Gary and Mitch still alive at the end of the book, but the military rewards Gary by using time travel to prevent the death of his wife.
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La Brèche / int_ff8afd14	type	Spider Tank
La Brèche / int_ff8afd14	comment	Spider Tank: Used by modern armies of 2060. The first appearance of Gary features him seeing one when covering the war between India and Pakistan.
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La Brèche / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
La Brèche / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Some parts read like a detailed nonfiction book about the D-Day landing (especially the chapter when they cross the Channel in the night of the 5th-6th of June). The book ends with a bibliography of nonfiction books which the author read before writing the novel.
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La Brèche / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
La Brèche / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Gary, since the death of his wife a few month before the events of the story. It is what makes him so eager to be part of the show.
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