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In a Different 1977 The Electoral College has selected Nelson Rockefeller to serve a full, second presidential term. The Rockefeller Administration’s challenges are many. The president must lay the groundwork for a normal election in 1980 and a peaceful transfer of power. A rump congress tries to reassert its authority. Dozens of areas claim sovereignty from the United States. Tens of millions of refugees remain at large. Having won the war in Europe and Korea, a triumphant General Alexander Haig plots his future. Abroad, Great Britain and the Commonwealth try to impose order on a world ...

In a Different 1976 The sequel to The Great Nuclear War of 1975 The Aftermath of 1976 As nuclear winter turns into spring, the Rockefeller Administration must rebuild America. The task is enormous. Every major American city and state capital has been blasted to radioactive rubble. The nation’s infrastructure is smashed. Tens of millions of Americans are displaced and homeless. President Rockefeller runs the nation from the Western White House in Casper, Wyoming. A rump congress convenes at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. Somehow, the nation must hold a presidential election. Politicians ...

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 In a Different 1975… Superpower relations breakdown and a nuclear war all but annihilates the Soviet Union and devastates the United States. 100 million Americans are dead. After Washington is destroyed, a smalltown judge delivers the oath of office to Vice President Rockefeller. Surviving American forces on land, sea and in the air await orders from the new president. Americans across the nation climb out of the rubble looking for a homeland that no longer exists. In surviving capitals across the globe, governments ponder the implications of a world without ...

Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen worlds that never were. Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered, “What if?” What if Japan had been on the side of the U.S. in World War II? What if things had been just a little different in the Falklands? What if Russia had started World War Three?

In 1964 the German Empire is the most power nation in Europe. As Germany commemorates the 50th anniversary of the victorious Great War, a Berlin based Austrian painter recalls his role in the war and his life afterwards.