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The Big One by Stuart Slade It is the summer of 1947 and Europe is being torn apart by a war nobody can win. Nazi Germany occupies everything from the Pyrenees to the Volga, from Britain to the Alps. In the east, Russian and American Armies fight together, holding the line on the Volga to prevent the German Army from breaking through. In the West, American aircraft carriers rule the Atlantic, hurling their hordes of midnight-blue fighter-bombers against every target they can find. more details Add new comment	End of the Beginning: A Novel of Alternate History by Harry Turtledove The alternate history master and author of Days of Infamy brings his Pearl Harbor epic to a dramatic conclusion. In this alternate history of World War II, the Japanese follow up their Pearl Harbor attack with the successful occupation of Hawaii, and America is marshalling its military forces-from east coast to west-to reclaim the islands from the enemy. more details Add new comment
The Foresight War by Anthony G. Williams What if – you went to sleep as usual in 2004 – and woke up in 1934? What if – you had vital knowledge about the forthcoming Second World War, and could prove that you came from the future? What could you do to affect British policy, strategy, tactics and equipment? more details Add new comment	Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove It is December 7, 1941, and the Japanese launch an attack against United States naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor. The Japanese follow up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii. With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of their conquerors, there is no one to stop the Japanese from using the islands' resources to launch an offensive against America's western coast. more details Add new comment
Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles, Michael Dobson In the tradition of the bestselling novels Fatherland and SS-GB, Fox on the Rhine was the heart-stopping novel of military suspense that showed what might have happened behind the scenes and on the battlefield had a single incident of WWII been different. Now, that alternate war continues in Fox at the Front. more details Add new comment	Fox on the Rhine by Douglas Niles, Michael Dobson The Führer is dead ... but the war still goes on! Backed by a cadre of SS officers, Himmler seizes control of the Reich and instigates a plan to change the course of the war. First, an armistice with Russia. Second, the mass production of jet fighters. more details Add new comment
What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been Collective work User Rating: / 1 PoorBest Historians and philosophers alike have pondered the crucial turning points of history-events that forever altered the course of civilization, and set the stage for the world in which we live today. In these essays, some of the most respected minds of our time ask the question "What If..." more details Add new comment	The Hitler Options: Alternate Decisions of World War II by Kenneth Macksey User Rating: / 1 PoorBest 6 pages of b/w illustrations and 12 maps 6 x 9. Ten scenarios that might have changed the course of the war. Detailed examinations by ten leading military historians. A thought-provoking study of what might have been. more details Add new comment
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. more details Add new comment	Fatherland by Robert Harris Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. more details Add new comment
SS-GB by Len Deighton User Rating: / 3 PoorBest In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall...For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on. more details Add new comment