On the other side of the sun, opposite our earth, is a world we never see Counterearth. In every way it’s identical to ours…almost! Albert Einstein, Juan (and Eva) Peron, Babe Didrickson and Sir Oswald Mosley are off on a wild race to Counterearth. It’s all action and excitement against a historical background – in fact against *two* historical backgrounds – detailed enough to intrigue any history buff. It’s January 1942; Cordell Hull is President of the United States; and the good guys take off in their spaceship, *Manta* , from the deck of the SS *Titanic* , steaming back from Liverpool to New York with thousands of New Year’s revellers on board.