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What do readers say about Fatherland?
suspenseful, thoughtful and insightful a good thriller a detective story an exciting thrillerThe New York Times bestselling classic of alternate history, a murder mystery set in a world where the Nazis won World War II-for fans of The Plot Against America and The Man in the High Castle
Berlin, 1964. The Greater German Reich stretches from t... More details on Fatherland
THICK CLOUD HAD pressed down on Berlin all night, and now it was lingering into what passed for the morning. On the city’s western outskirts, plumes of rain drifted across the surface of Lake Havel, l...
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What do readers say about The Plot Against America?
engaging and straightforward interesting and engaging alternative history novel novel of alternative historyPhilip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel-the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president-is now an HBO limited series.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth im... More details on The Plot Against America
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I h...
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What do readers say about The Proteus Operation?
hitler is winning wwii hauntingly strange and familiar a story with nazis one of the best time travel novelsIn a world in which Hitler was victorious in World War II, a select group of American diplomats, scientists, and commandos journey back through time to 1939 to change the course of the war and history... More details on The Proteus Operation
TWENTY-FIVEMILESSOUTH of London, near the town of Westerham in the Weald of Kent, Chartwell Manor and its estate stood amid a rolling landscape of woodlands, fields, and sleepy farming villages lying ...
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What do readers say about The Peshawar Lancers?
steady stream of action great stand alone tale a ripping yarn a fun rompIn the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically... More details on The Peshawar Lancers
Captain Athelstane King rinsed out his mouth with a swig from the goatskin water bag slung at his saddlebow. Even in October this shadeless, low-lying part of the Northwest Frontier Province was hot; ...
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What do readers say about The Man in the High Castle?
sharp, clear prose a book of ideas a novel of ideas not-exactly-elegant prose styleNOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES
'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'
America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while Californi... More details on The Man in the High Castle
For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail. But the valuable shipment from the Rocky Mountain States had not arrived. As he opened up his store on Friday morning and saw only lette...
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What do readers say about Farthing?
sharp and clear chilling and entertaining post wwii britain suspenseful and thought-provokingFirst published in 2006, Jo Walton's Farthing was hailed as a masterpiece, a darkly romantic thriller set in an alternate postwar England sliding into fascism.
Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitl... More details on Farthing
It started when David came in from the lawn absolutely furious. We were down at Farthing for one of Mummy’s ghastly political squeezes. If we could have found any way out of it we would have been some...
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What do readers say about SS-GB?
alternate history thriller alternate history crime novel the nazi nuclear program the germans'invasion plans'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times Book Review
It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the Kin... More details on SS-GB
The other man busied himself with the papers on his desk and made no comment. He thumped the rubber stamp into the pad and then on to the docket, ‘Scotland Yard. 14 Nov. 1941’. It was incredible that ...
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What do readers say about The Yiddish Policemen's Union?
noir detective novel interesting and visual noir murder mystery dry and dullFor sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Prou... More details on The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a...
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What do readers say about The Guns of the South?
alternate history fiction the cival war thought-provoking speculative fiction a fun thought experiment"It is absolutely unique-without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read."
Professor James M. McPherson
Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
January 1864-General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia... More details on The Guns of the South
Headquarters January 20, 1864 Mr. President: I have delayed replying to your letter of the 4th until the time arrived for the execution of the attempt on New Berne. I regret very much that the boats o...
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What do readers say about 1632?
30 year war positive, optimistic and simple military science fiction quick and pleasantFREEDOM AND JUSTICE - AMERICAN STYLE
1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
Mike ducked, hunched. James Nichols' reaction was more dramatic. "Incoming!" he yelped, flinging himself to the floor and covering his head with his arms. He seemed utterly oblivious to any possible d...
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