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It's 1944, and the quaint Midwest farm town of Russell, Kansas, hides a secret that could turn the tide for Hitler and the Third Reich in Europe.
Nazi spies Andreas and Peter Othmer find it easy to blend in with the small community of 2nd- and 3rd-generation German-American Kansans. Hand-selected by Germany's military intelligence service, they're tasked with secretly documenting B-29 flight patterns from nearby Walker Air Force Base. But as the...
63) The Blue Lotus
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In Fight and Be Right and The World of Fight and Be Right, Ed Thomas explored the strange parallel history that resulted from the unlikely political success of Winston Churchill's father. There are many stories to be told in this world. This is one of them.
It's 1934, and as war rages across the globe the city of Shanghai preserves an uneasy neutrality between the rival alliances- until a young journalist is brutally murdered. Can the killer be brought...
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The story of Vancouver's legendary Penthouse nightclub, founded in 1947 and active to this day. In its heyday, acts like Sammy Davis Jr and Nat King Cole performed, and stars like Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper visited; in the 1970s, the club became infamous for its exotic dancers and a lurid history that included vice squads, politicians, and con men.
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Travel to an alternative and parallel Earth, to an era in which Donald Trump has proclaimed himself emperor of the Union of Trump States of America (UTSA). During the 100th anniversary of women attaining the right to vote, the emperor has rescinded all rights and privileges that women have attained. And to top it all off, the emperor has opened internment camps for dissidents.
Now imagine undocumented extraterrestrial aliens have breached Trump's...
66) Festung Europa
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1942. Stalingrad falls, and with it, the Soviet war effort. A victorious Third Reich turns its attention west and enters a stalemate with the Western Allies. An uneasy truce begins, but it will not last forever.
Starting with an overview of the world leading up to the resumption of all-out war between the Allies and Nazi state, we see the all-too possible results of the Nazi Party in control of Europe for an additional decade and longer. This is...
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As the twentieth century approaches, politics and extreme weather have combined to turn the world upside down and the changes are still happening.
Germany is gone; Central and Western Europe now try to adjust to new realities.
A series of natural disasters sweep across the Stuart realms and an American millionaire's tendency to seasickness changes the shape of international trade for ever.
Trying to kill the monarch becomes an international...
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Alice is a girl with her dream job, at the centre of the political heart of the nation — the English Parliament in Oxford. Admittedly, her role in parliament is a caterer, and her nation is just whatever odds and sods were left over when the various English towns and regions got their devolved assemblies. But she's proud to be part of an organisation that allows England's voice to be heard. The problem is, who is speaking, and who are they speaking...
69) Double Play
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What if Lee Harvey Oswald had been an agent tasked with infiltrating an assassination plot against JFK? What if he was successful, but a twin plot to murder Vice President Johnson had succeeded?A spiralling conspiracy apparently succeeds, but two men soon know the truth – they just happen to be in prison.
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Harold Wilson was launched into the spotlight as the darling of Labour's modern left in the leadership election of 1960, challenging Gaitskell and making himself the de facto leader of the Labour Left. His was the promise of a modernising party, committed to shaping Britain into a progressive and technocratic nation, and this promise would be put to the test when he became Prime Minister in 1964. Sadly, it was a test he did not pass and the failures...
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It's the twenty-first century! Thanks to the inevitable tide of historical progress, we live in a liberal and democratic society! Except...that anonymous tide was made of real people making the decision to work to change things. What if, starting with the Great Reform Act of 1832, they had decided otherwise?
The Unreformed Kingdom explores a very different, yet oddly familiar, Britain of a 2015 in which you can download an app to watch public executions,...
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Síntesis: ¿Quién es el personaje de este libro? Leví de oficio publicano y linaje saduceo. Pero, es más conocido por su nombre griego: Mateo. No hay nadie en occidente, que crea en Dios o le sea indiferente, que no sepa de memoria o haya oído recitar alguna vez, uno de los párrafos más famosos, escrito por él: "El Padre Nuestro".Esta ficción histórica, está dedicada a su persona, historia, familia, amigos y rabinos. Su formación académica,...
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In 1971, strange things were afoot at the centre of the People's Republic of China. With the Cultural Revolution still under way and Mao Zedong at the height of his power, China and the world were shocked to find late in the year that assassination and coup had been in the air, and had subsequently come crashing down in eastern Mongolia. Lin Biao, Marshall of the People's Liberation Army, and Mao's constitutionally designated successor was dead in...
74) A Southern Yarn
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The book starts at the Battle of Spotsylvania with Grant attacking the salient. It traces through the remainder of that battle, then the march south to the North Anna River. Here Lee devises a trap by deploying his forces in an inverted V with the head against the river at Ox Ford. Grant was forced to divide his army into three separate depositions, two of which were south of the river. The actual history sees Lee falling violently ill with a severe...
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You don't wake up one day and become a Mafia hit man. It doesn't happen overnight. This is a story about how a young football-loving American boy could end up a calculated killer, 'strictly business.' It tells of a long and dangerous journey to becoming an assassin. A successful professional killer is made, not born. You get to experience his thoughts as he tries to justify the world of blood, sex, and death.
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It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And, a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army.
Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded,...
77) Mushroom
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Farzin, a simple man of simple faith, finds the end of the world has come - nuclear war has spread across the Middle East, and now he must escape with his family and find refuge. Mushroom is a 3000-word alternate history short story set in Iran twenty years in the future.
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"A masterful and epic novel . . . a stunning portrayal of how things that seem infinitesimal can shake the entire world." -History that Never Was"The best alternate history novel I have ever read . . . daunting in its vision . . . this book is a dream come true." -Never Was MagazineOn September 11, the United States were destroyed.That is, September 11 of the Year of Our Lord 1620.In this alternate history, the Mayflower was lost at sea, and the English...
79) The Sea Eagles
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When an super powered alien teenage bat sent a 1990 West German patrol boat back in time, it caused a few ripples, and not only in the North Sea. The Sea Eagle Secret became the biggest story of the century, changing history for German sailors, Russian spies, French soldiers, Chinese politicians, Japanese admirals, British scientists, Czech bureaucrats, American airmen, and many others (not to mention Gilberto). This is history as it might have been...
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A NEW NOVELLA FROM THE TEAM BEHIND 'AGENT LAVENDER'
At time of writing, Britain has been led by thirteen men and two women since the Second World War. But not all countries have this kind of turnover - some, like Italy, have had dozens of leaders.
But others still have seen sustained periods of democratic governance by a single individual. What if Britain, a country in which a decade in office is seen as a long spell, had a post-war Prime Minister...
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