Harry Turtledove
Here are some of my favourite Turtledove novels.
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![]() American FrontAn alternate history following on from How Few Remain, set at the same time as World War One in our timeline. The US decides to support Germany, whilst the Confederacy falls in with her old allies, France and Britain. America becomes the new battleground for their old antagonisms. Once again brother fights brother, friend fights friend. |
![]() Walk in HellIt's 1915, and the Great War is intensifying, and the time of darkness has come. The slaves of the South have risen against their masters, taken on the creed of Bolshevism and are attacking the Confederacy. But the US remains pinned between their southern rival and the other enemy, Canada. |
![]() BreakthroughsUnder the leadership of Roosevelt, the Union has been invigorated. Using new technology, Yankee forces attempt to break through the supposedly impregnable Tennessee trench line but they have to climb over the bodies of previous failures to do it. |
![]() Blood and IronTurtledove's Great War series morphs into the American Empire series. The U.S and imperial Germany have imposed a "blood and iron" peace on Britain, France, Russia, and the Confederacy. On the western front, the Confederacy struggles to overcome defeat, dissension, and Weimar-level inflation, and the U.S. labors to stay on top of things and prepare for the next round of combat. Indomitable, muddleheaded General Custer has his sails trimmed by the election of Socialist Upton Sinclair as president... . Buy it now from amazon.co.uk |
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World War![]() World War In the BalanceWorld War II seethed across the planet. Hostilities spread in ever-widening circles of destruction. Then the real enemy arrived. Out of the skies came an inhuman invasion force, their weaponary overwhelming and with a simple goal: Fleetlord Atvar had arrived to claim Earth for the Empire. |
![]() World War Striking the BalanceAlien beings invade the Earth in the middle of World War II, forcing Allied and Axis powers to cease their own fight and unite against this new enemy. As the aliens unleash nuclear weapons, humans resort to guerilla warfare, but is it necessary to destroy the Earth in order to save it? |
![]() World War Tilting the BalanceThe war between humans halted as the great military powers scrambled to meet an even deadlier foe. Already, Berlin and Washington had been wiped out and the US and the Axis territories lay under the invaders' control. Yet humanity refused to surrender. |
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![]() Second Contact ColonisationArriving in the midst of World War II, aliens have conquered half the Earth and are threatening to exerminate all life on the planet if they don't get their way. |
![]() Second Contact Down to EarthArriving in the midst of World War II, aliens have conquered half the Earth and are threatening to exerminate all life on the planet if they don't get their way. |
![]() Second Contact Aftershocks |