How many people read alt. history alt military history books here? Colin Gee has an especially well written series on A Soviet attack shortly after the end of WWII. There are some others that are out there as well, alt. WWII and quite a few WWIII set in the 80's.
I enjoyed the first three books of the 1632 series, aka the Ring of Fire series (though the ring is part of the series for about three pages in book one - just explains how the circa-2000 town from West Virginia gets plopped down in the middle of Thirty Years War-era Europe. I appreciated Harry Turtledove's tetralogy on an alien invasion in the midst of World War 2, which forces everyone to rethink alliances and enmities. I think it could have done with some tighter editing, but the Worldwar series was good overall. Turtledove is a giant in the genre, but I have not read any of his others.
Just reading that overview of the Ring of Fire series is baffling. Semi-collaboratively written, authors either supposed to contribute, not actually, etc... weird.
That's why I only liked the first few books. The rest sort of turns out like Fan Fic series on the web.
I read Fatherland in the 1990's. I loved it back then. I always want to read the Guns of the South. I tried to read "Plot against America", but could get past the first few pages.
Didn't think much of Plot myself. Guns of the South however I have read three times I love that book.
Stephen King's 11/22/63 often got listed among alt history books. It is actually more sci-fi. I do not have much of an opinion of it. for a book 700 pages long, I normally gave up if it is uninteresting. I never got into trhe book, but I somehow finished it. So the book must have some appeal. Oh, I never read any book by King.... I am not into horror or sci-fi.
It's a typical King book. The first 1,000,000 pages are awesome and the last 10 are awful. You have to read the Stand. You just have too.
The Stand was a great read. I have heard Dark Tower is good but haven't read it yet. I read Firestarter back in jr. thought it was a great book.
The Company of the Dead by David Kowalski is about the alternate reality created by the Titanic not sinking. It effects all sorts of things, mainly World War II and it has much of the US controlled by the Germans and Japanese. It's whacky and interesting but ends up feeling a little to0 formulaic--good guys are faced with impossible situations and always manage to win.
I'll check that one out. Turtledove's duology on Pearl Harbour is really interesting. The Japanese follow up their attack with an invasion. They probably should have done that anyway.