Alternate History Books
 Against the Day
 Against the Tide of Years
 Age of Tolerance
 Agent of Byzantium
 Almost America
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 Alternate Empires
 Alternate Generals
 Alternate Generals II
 Alternate Generals III
 Alternate Gettysburgs
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 Alternate Outlaws
 Alternate Presidents
 Alternate Skiffy
 Alternate Tyrants
 Alternate Warriors
 Alternate Wars
 American Empire: Blood and Iron
 American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
 American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
 American Indian Victories
 Anno Dracula
 Anti-Ice
 Anvil of Necessity
 Apacheria
 Aztec Century
 Back in the USSA
 Battle of the Bulge
 The Best Alternate History Stories
 The Big One
 Black Powder War
 Bloody Red Baron
 A Book of Alternate Worlds
 Bring the Jubilee
 Britannia's Fist
 Budspy
 The Burning Mountain
 By Any Other Fame
 Camelot Revisited
 A Change of Regime
 Children of Apollo
 The Children's War
 Clash of Eagles
 Cold War Hot
 Collaborator
 Colonization: Aftershocks
 Colonization: Down to Earth
 Colonization: Second Contact
 The Company of the Dead
 The Confederate States of America
 Conquistador
 Counterclockwise
 Cracken at Critical
 The Crystal Empire
 A Dangerous Energy
 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
 Days of Infamy
 Death is Lighter Than a Feather
 Departures
 Designated Targets
 Desperate Times
 The Difference Engine
 A Different Flesh
 Disaster at D-Day
 A Disturbance of Fate
 Dixie Victorious
 The Domination
 Dragon America
 Drakas!
 Drakon
 El Sombra
 Empire of Fear
 Empire of Ivory
 End of the Beginning
 Farthing
 Fatherland
 Fiends of the Eastern Front
 Fiends of the Rising Sun
 Final Impact
 For Want of a Nail
 The Foresight War
 Fox at the Front
 Fox on the Rhine
 From The Heart Of The Storm
 Gettysburg
 Gettysburg: An Alternate History
 The Ghosts of Antietam
 Grant Comes East
 Grantville Gazette
 Grantville Gazette II
 Grantville Gazette III
 Grantville Gazette IV
 The Great Game
 Great War: American Front
 Great War: Breakthroughs
 Great War: Walk in Hell
 Guns of the South
 The Hammer and the Cross
 Hannibal's Children
 Ha'penny
 His Majesty's Dragon
 History Revisited
 Hitler Options
 Hitler Triumphant
 Hitler Victorious
 Homeward Bound
 How Few Remain
 The Human Front
 Human Nature
 If Hitler Had Won
 If It Had Happened Otherwise
 If The South Had Won The Civil War
 In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
 In the Morning
 In the Presence of Mine Enemies
 Invasion
 Invasion!
 The Iron Dream
 Iron Maiden
 Island in the Sea of Time
 Judgment of Tears
 K
 Lee At Chattanooga
 Lest Darkness Fall
 Leviathan Rising
 The Lion is Humbled
 Lion's Blood
 The Lion's Way
 Luftwaffe Victorious
 MacArthur's War
 Making History
 The Man in the High Castle
 The Man With the Iron Heart
 Marching Through Georgia
 McGwire the Pitcher
 Midas Sheffield & Co.
 Ministry of Space
 Moon of Ice
 A More Perfect Union
 More What If?
 The Moscow Option
 Naked Presidents
 The Napoleon Options
 Never Call Retreat
 New Zealand As It Might Have Been
 A Nomad of the Time Streams
 On the Oceans of Eternity
 One Lamp
 Operation Lucifer
 The Other Teddy Roosevelts
 Pacific Empire
 Pavane
 Pearl Harbor
 The Peshawar Lancers
 Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
 The Plot Against America
 President Gore
 Prime Minister Portillo...
 The Probability Broach
 The Proteus Operation
 A Rebel In Time
 Rebel Nation
 Red Sun
 Resurrection Day
 Return to Eden
 Revisions
 Ring of Fire
 Ring of Fire II
 Rising Sun Victorious
 Roads Not Taken
 Ruled Britannia
 Russian Amerika
 The Separation
 Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
 Settling Accounts: The Grapple
 Settling Accounts: In at the Death
 Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
 Severed Wing
 The Shadow of the Storm
 The Sky People
 The Sound of His Horn
 Spirit of Thunder
 SS-GB
 Stars and Stripes Forever
 Stars and Stripes In Peril
 Stars and Stripes Triumphant
 The Stone Dogs
 Things Unborn
 Third Reich Victorious
 Throne of Jade
 Through the Night
 To Bring the Light
 The Tranquility Alternative
 A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
 The Trinity Paradox
 Triumph
 Triumph of the Third Reich
 The Two Georges
 The Ultimate Solution
 Under the Yoke
 Unmaking the West
 Unnatural History
 Virtual History
 Voyage
 The Way It Wasn't
 Weapons of Choice
 West of Eden
 What If?
 What If? 2
 What If? Australian History...
 What If The Babe
 What Ifs? Of American History
 What Might Have Been
 What Might Have Been: Vol 1
 What Might Have Been: Vol 2
 What Might Have Been: Vol 3
 What Might Have Been: Vol 4
 Winter in Eden
 A World of Difference
 Worlds of the Imperium
 Worldwar: In the Balance
 Worldwar: Striking the Balance
 Worldwar: Tilting the Balance
 Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance
 The Year the Cloud Fell
 The Years of Rice and Salt
 The Yiddish Policemen's Union
 Zulu Heart
 1632
 1633
 1634: The Baltic War
 1634: The Bavarian Crisis
 1634: The Galileo Affair
 1634: The Ram Rebellion
 1635: Cannon Law
 1635: The Dreeson Incident
 1812: The Rivers War
 1824: The Arkansas War
 1862
 1864
 1901
 1942: A Novel
 1945
 1945: A Novel
 '48
 
 
Alternate History Books

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Welcome to Alternate History Books, the site about alternate history and counterfactuals.

Ever wanted to know what might have happened if history had turned out differently? On this web site, we review books about alternate history - events that might have been that weren't.
  • Some of the books contain serious historical studies of what might have been if leaders of the past had made different decisions or luck had not influenced historical events in a particular way.

  • Other books that we look at, include novels or short stories - sometimes these books involve realistic changes to history that could have happened, but didn't - whereas in other cases, they involve fantastic elements such as time travel or travel between parallel worlds, dinosaurs or even or vampires.
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Outrageous Fortunes: a Novel of Alternate Histories

By Steven W. White

Released: 2011-03-16
Kindle Edition (255 pages)

Outrageous Fortunes: a Novel of Alternate Histories
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Shy amateur historian Randy Sullivan, age 23 and unhappy with his life, is approached by his double from a parallel Los Angeles, a bombastic physicist and inventor who calls himself "Sully." Together they step out of this reality and visit versions of Earth stranger than Randy has ever imagined... and those so eerily close as to be just out of reach.

But all is not well back home. Randy's out-of-control adolescent brother and sister are left in the care of his cool-headed and gorgeous neighbor Penelope – the love of Randy's life. They are stranded by encroaching California wildfires. The flames are drawing near and time is running out.

And Sully, genius and connoisseur of a thousand worlds, has a secret plan of his own – and it does not involve Randy Sullivan ever getting home alive.



"Sully takes Randy on a journey across the multiverse, showing him bizarre Earths and the wonders they contain. Yet not everything is as it seems... a delight to read." - Alternate History Weekly Update

Archangel: A Novel of Alternate, Recent History

By Aaron Worthing

Released: 2012-01-12
Kindle Edition

Archangel: A Novel of Alternate, Recent History
 
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On September 11, 2001, a businessman faced a grim choice. Perched on the ninety-third floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, he had to choose between dying in the fire rising around him, or jumping. He chose to jump.

In our world he died, one of around three thousand to die that day.

In the alternate world where Archangel takes place, someone was there to catch him. A fireman, wearing a mask, leapt out of a window in the tower and with no visible means of propulsion, the fireman flew after him. The fireman caught the man and brought him down to a soft, controlled landing, live on national television. A real-life superhero had made his national debut.

This is that superhero's story.

But this isn't a fairy tale. Around a thousand people still died in the vicious attack. However, this fireman was able rescue many people from the top of the burning towers. And when he saw the South Tower begin to fall, he caught it using only his mind and set it down safely in Central Park. Finally, he tried to stop Flight 93 from crashing, but in his effort to save the plane it ripped apart, and only a handful were saved.

So in that day of mourning, there was joy and also a question: who was this fireman?

Archangel follows the story of this fireman, from his childhood in the Philippines to his debut as a superhero on September 11. Filled with action and suspense, laughter and tears, international intrigue and romance, this novel provides an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of a what a superhero would really look like in our modern world and how that world would respond.

Finding Sanctuary: A Novel Of Alternate History

By Jeremy Mcilroy

CreateSpace
Paperback (338 pages)

Finding Sanctuary: A Novel Of Alternate History
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A secret society of the world's most brilliant scientists is destroyed in a raid initiated by a corrupt government wanting new technologically advanced weapons. A lone survivor is forced to enlist the aid of family members who already believe him to have died in a plane crash many years before. Driven by the need to rescue his friends and associates from their deaths in the past, he becomes obsessed with his time travel research and builds a machine that he hopes will enable him to set things right. In the process, he discovers much more than he bargained for.

Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History

By S. M. Stirling

Roc
Released: 2004-03-02
Paperback (608 pages)

Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History
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A new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called "a pleasure to read" and Harry Turtledove hailed as "first-rate adventure all the way."

1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence. 21st century: The two realities collide...

Contagion: A Novel of The Living Dead

By L.I. Albemont

Released: 2011-06-26
Kindle Edition (182 pages)

Contagion: A Novel of The Living Dead
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A small mountain town is isolated by a snowstorm as an ancient evil, gone pandemic, turns the residents into the living dead. Almost overnight the town becomes a snowy tomb of the roaming, hungry infected. Stranded by the weather, hiding, a small group of survivors follows the progress of the disease as society around them and around the world begins to break down. Determined to escape, they find that the normal rules of civilization don’t apply anymore. Will they be able to adapt to this strange, hungry new world?

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Days of Infamy: A Novel of Alternate History

By Harry Turtledove

Tantor Media
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Days of Infamy: A Novel of Alternate History
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? This is the question explored by Harry Turtledove in Days of Infamy, with frightening implications. 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.

Stars & Stripes Forever: A Novel of Alternate History (Stars and Stripes Trilogy)

By Harry Harrison

Del Rey
Released: 2007-12-18
Kindle Edition (369 pages)

Stars & Stripes Forever: A Novel of Alternate History (Stars and Stripes Trilogy)
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On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage, calling for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert. But imagine how Albert's absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn America.

Ulysses S. Grant is poised for an attack that could smash open the South's defenses. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln sees a first glimmer of hope that this bloody war might soon end. But then disaster strikes: English troops have invaded from Canada. With most of the Northern troops withdrawn to fight the new enemy, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his weakened army stand alone against the Confederates. Can a divided, bloodied America defeat England, or will the United States cease to exist for all time?


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Water Over Heaven: A novel of ceremonial and mystic traditions, folded into alternate realities and time.

By Mark R. Stratmoen

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Water Over Heaven: A novel of ceremonial and mystic traditions, folded into alternate realities and time.
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A computer specialist in 1998 disappears in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. An archaeologist in 2004 discovers something in the Red Desert that should not be there. A bio-physicist and his associates in 2158 decide to invoke their Native American heritage and devise a means and manner to go back in time and alter American history to their ancestor’s advantage. An observer from 2543 traveling in a sphere of organic technology notices these events and may have his own agenda. Decisions, decisions, choices to be made, consequences unseen. Chaos or salvation? Mystic traditions, Native Spirituality, Eastern philosophy, the truth be told and skills employed to create an alternate reality. Water over heaven. And someone else is watching.

First Nations (Mere America)

By Jeff Lilly

Released: 2011-02-27
Kindle Edition (67 pages)

First Nations (Mere America)
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Mere America is an alternate history of a mirror-reversed America, in which the California redwoods march down the east coast, and the Pacific breakers pound Manhattan Island. From the original Viking incursion in British Columbia to the technocrats of the 20th-century Iroquois, from the victory of the Confederacy (built on slavery and gold) to President Martin Luther King of the Free States of America, "Mere America" follows the grand sweep of history through the lives of key characters such as Leif Erikson, Virginia Dare, Robert E. Lee, Bright Path (Jim Thorpe), and Ronald Reagan.

Part One, "First Nations", concerns the first clashes between Europeans and the 'Namgis, the Cherokee, the Muwekma, and the Mohawk. This is the 2nd Edition, which is extended, revised and updated, with an all-new prologue.

Red Inferno: 1945: A Novel

By Robert Conroy

Ballantine Books
Released: 2010-02-23
Paperback (368 pages)

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In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this turning point in history, another war is about to explode.
 
To win World War II, the Allies dealt with the devil. Joseph Stalin helped FDR, Churchill, and Truman crush Hitler. But what if “Uncle Joe” had given in to his desire to possess Germany and all of Europe? In this stunning novel, Robert Conroy picks up the history of the war just as American troops cross the Elbe into Germany. Then Stalin slams them with the brute force of his enormous Soviet army.

From American soldiers and German civilians trapped in the ruins of Potsdam to U.S. military men fighting behind enemy lines, from a scholarly Russia expert who becomes a secret player in a new war to Stalin’s cult of killers in Moscow, this saga captures the human face of international conflict. With the Soviets vastly outnumbering the Americans—but undercut by chronic fuel shortages and mistrust—Eisenhower employs a brilliant strategy of retreat to buy critical time for air superiority. Soon, Truman makes a series of controversial decisions, enlisting German help and planning to devastate the massive Red Army by using America’s ultimate and most secret weapon.

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