Below The Beltway

Harry Turtledove could have just as easily titled this final volume of the American Empire series The Triumph of Evil, because that is exactly the story unfolds over the seven years that the story that unfolds covers.
The book opens where the last volume, The Center Cannot Hold, left off. Jake Featherston, possessing a political philosophy, [...]

Its Volume Two of the American Empire series, and things are not well for pretty much anyone in the Timeline-191 universe. And that is the story that American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
The United States, content with its victory in the Great War, has settled into a period of foriegn policy complacency. The Confederate States, [...]

In this first book of the American Empire series, Harry Turtledove abandons a pattern that he had followed since the first book in the so-called Timeline-191 series. This time, there is no Second Mexican War, no Great War raging across the North American continent. Instead, this book focuses on the roughly seven year time period [...]

The year is 1862. The month is September. The Army of Northern Virginia has just defeated the Army of the Potomac for the second time at Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia. Now, Robert E. Lee has decided to take the fight across the Mason-Dixon Line. The Army of Northern Virginia crosses into Maryland, threatening Washington [...]

Virtually every historian, amateur or professional, has asked the question — What if ? What if Hannibal had not made it across the Alps ?
What if Germany had won the Battle of Britain ?
What if the South had won the Civil War ?
That’s the question Harry Turtledove tries to answer in The Guns of The [...]