Alternative Military History

The year is 1992. Over twenty years have passed since Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was assassinated by a crazed gunman. Since that time, the Soviet Union has been put on a course toward economic success—and war. In the Balkans, Yugoslavia's collapse into ethnic violence draws NATO and the Warsaw Pact to the brink of Armageddon. Armies deploy and fleets maneuver. Political intrigue engulfs Moscow and Washington, and paranoia radiates from the Iron Curtain. In the zero-sum game of Cold War, neither side can afford to blink or back down.

The war that the world had hoped to avoid has begun. Everywhere there is chaos. Hitler’s armies now control Europe. In one fell swoop Germany has changed the face of the continent and now only the British people remain free. In Spain, Franco considers joining the conflict. In the Far East, Japan’s war on China is about to take a different turn. And Stalin’s war on Finland has met with utter defeat for the Red Army, leaving many wondering about another purge in Russia. Now comes the next stage. While Hitler ties together an alliance that will secure his nation’s supremacy he also ...

1940: In Europe Hitler’s original plans to start a war the year before have been delayed, giving Germany another year to build up its vast military strength. The Allies, by contrast, continue to try and appease the dictator in vain hopes of avoiding a repeat of the First World War. Prime Minister Chamberlain attempts to negotiate a treaty before things get too far out of control. Meanwhile, Winston Churchill tries desperately to rally his country in order to meet the threat that he knows is coming. Elsewhere, Japan’s war in China continues to ravage that country. Millions are already ...

In the seven years since he was stranded in 1836 in the body of William Barret Travis, Will Travers has managed to win Texas independence without the costly massacres he recalled from his own history and forge a peace treaty with the Comanche. As 1843 dawns he faces his greatest challenge yet. Mexico has renewed its war of reconquest. A new general is in charge of Mexico’s army, bringing new strategies to blunt Will’s modern tactics and superior weapons. To counter this new threat, thousands of men from towns and farms across the Republic of Texas volunteer to defend their hard-earned ...

It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. The tale begins...

Imagine the skies of World War II – not just filled with planes, but with dragons. A WWII alternate history fantasy with dragons, magic, and myth reborn. Pendragon Keep is crumbling. The guns of the Channel roar. And Captain Jack Hanlon walks the parapet with nine tons of storm-breathing wyrm above him, listening to the only rhythm that hasn’t betrayed him. In 1944, the skies are no longer owned by aircraft alone. In a world where dragons are more than weapons, Jack leads the 12th Battalion: an elite unit of dragon-riders tasked with surviving a war twisted by rune-charged infantry, ...

Summer 1941: The British Isles have been invaded! Germany’s conquest of Europe now extends onto British soil. The situation is dire. The British Army is still reeling from its defeat on the continent, the RAF is facing a Luftwaffe that is many times larger and only the Royal Navy is in any shape to meet the enemy. Despite all of this, Churchill is determined to fight on, no matter the cost. In Berlin, Albert Speer has created a monster. The German war machine he’s built up is now reaching a new peak and showing no signs of slowing down. Spain has attacked Gibraltar and in a stunning ...

The 'Deceiver's Great Reset' is the fourth installment and a prequel to the 'Season of the End Times' series. The story begins in 1947 with the UFO crash and recovery in the high desert of Roswell, New Mexico. Follows the military's secret reverse engineering of Alien technology, from the Army Air Corps to the Air Force and the forming of the Space Force. A historical journey through America's political, military, foreign policy, and social and moral changes from the 1940s to 2019. Introducing new characters and the early lives of several characters from the first three books of the ...

WARRIOR QUEENS AND ROMAN INVADERS DO BATTLE IN THE FINAL VOLUME OF THIS THRILLING EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY. Caesar's soldiers have murdered, massacred and pillaged their way through Gaul and loom on the far side of the sea, ready to descend upon Britain -- with them are an unstoppable legion of men...

Lost in a mysterious world, far from all they knew in 1847 America, Colonel Lewis Cayce and his soldiers must face the unimaginable might of the Dominion once and for all in this gripping alternate history from the New York Times bestselling author of the Destroyermen series. Colonel Lewis Cayce...

Outraged when the US Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels - and suddenly, it's a whole new war. Once again, cotton is king as the North's blockade crumbles before the might of the Royal Navy. While Lincoln confronts the monumental challenge of vanquishing mighty Britannia, the Redcoats revive their 1812 penchant for burning down American cities, and Union troops see Canada as ripe for the picking.

Stranded in the past in 1836, Will Travers woke up in the body of William Barret Travis, commander of the doomed Alamo command, and did what any self-respecting Texan would do when handed a bag of lemons: He made lemonade - defeating Santa Anna's army, twice, forging a lasting peace with the Comanche and rescuing his son from a band of kidnappers. Sixteen years later and just months after he wins the presidency of the Republic of Texas, Will faces the worst crisis of his life. The young republic is being torn apart by civil war. On paper, it appears Will holds all the cards: The rebels are ...

An expeditionary force will discover unfamiliar lands, fight deadly foes, and reveal secrets as they explore the mysterious new earth they now call home in this gripping alternate history adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. Ever since the World War...

Leonades, the evil king of Porfia, had supplied the Steppe Nomads with arms and advisors. They had attacked Westland in Nordia and been beaten badly. But their attack on the fortress of Kurk in Turkmenia had succeeded. That left the whole of the Kingdom open to the Nomads. An army of Nomads was rampaging through the Kingdom. Their Ultimate goal was to take the capital. Princess Sylvia was organizing the defense of the capital, while her friend Prince Brandt hurried across half the continent to save her and the capital from the Nomads.

On their way to fight in the Mexican-American War, a group of American soldiers are swept away to a strange and deadly alternate Earth in this thrilling new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. The United States, 1847. A disparate group of young...

The year is 1901. Germany's navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany is without an empire. Kaiser Wilhelm II demands that the United States surrender its newly acquired territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. President McKinley indignantly refuses, so with the honor and economic future of the Reich at stake, the Kaiser launches an invasion of the United States, striking first on Long Island. 

It is July 10, 1863, and Baltimore is in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington, digging in, preparing to make a desperate stand. Six days earlier, General Ulysses S. Grant and his army of 60,000 had taken Vicksburg. The last telegram out of Washington before the rebels cut the line changed all that.

DECEMBER 2ND, 1805 The War of the Third Coalition rages in Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armée sweeps everything before it. With a big victory over an Austrian Army in Ulm, the French have occupied Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire. The Russians have entered Austria to come to the help of their Allies and under pressure from the British. The Austro-Russians and the French are about to clash at a small, unknown town called Austerlitz. And then everything changes. The French are stopped trying to retake the Pratzen Heights and the day's battle end in a stalemate for both ...

The year is 2265 and Earth is a utopia populated by enlightened and contented people. During this time virtual reality simulations of past events can be generated using unlimited computing power. One such project stems from the events surrounding a car accident in 1945 involving General George S. Patton. The simulation is used to see what an alternative world would look like without the General, who was killed in the accident. The simulation shows the utopians our world, where humanity has continued along the same path of self-destruction it has taken for millennia and the Cold War ...

The International Spy Museum's Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane. "Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." —Mary Roach, New York...