Recommended reading on alternate history

[mescal]

I'm surprised no one mentionned the "France Fights On" project here.

I just finished reading it, and it's amazing.
A very very worth read.

The English version is here, with 56 chapters from June 40 to April 42.
The French version has some more chapters up to Nov 1942.

[Gilbert Avila]

I would recommend Jo Walton's trilogy "Farthing," Ha'Penny," and "Half a Crown." It takes place in a world where Germany and Britain made peace in 1941, and spans the years from 1949 to 1960. They chronicle the events through the eyes of an English police detective (who's a closeted gay) as he sees Britain sliding into a racist, anti-semitic tyranny. I read them one after the other. Quite engrossing.

[Gilbert Avila]

A couple of other suggestions are two more by Harry Turtledove: Hitler's War, where WWII started in 1938, and The Man With The Iron Heart, where Reinhard Heydrich survived WWII and started an underground resistance movement in Germany.

[Field Marshal Mung Beans]

No online Alternate History?

Decades of Darkness http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=8170 New England secedes from the USA after a nastier debate over the Embargo Act due to Jefferson's death in office.
Napoleon's Victory http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=90610
Manstein in Africa http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=135445

By no means exhaustive and usually online TLs better deal with such things as the Butterfly effect.

Also For Want of a Nail is my favourite published AH, which deals with the Patriots losing the American Revolution and instead taking over Mexico.

[Gilbert Avila]

Harry Turtledove wrote a couple of books regarding the Japanese occupation of Hawaii:
1. Days of Infamy (2004)
2. End of the Beginning (2005)

Yeah, only two. Amazing for him. Another excellent novel is "MacArthur's War: by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson. The atom bomb has a catastrophic failure and as a result Japan has to be invaded. Very good book.

[kenmac]

The Moscow Option by David Downing:

http://www.amazon.com/Moscow-Option-Alt ... 762&sr=1-1

Probably the best strategic AH books I've read.

Agree 100% here.

[Marsprojekt48]

Two more additions to this list by my erudite and eloquent friends:
(1) J.R.Dunn, "Days of Cain". One of the best books I've ever read. On the surface it's just about time travelers going back to retrieve a Sea Stallion helicopter abandoned at Desert One in 1980, upgunning it with weapons from the future, then taking it back to 1943 to rescue prisoners in Auschwitz. But it's so much more complex, multilayered and even spiritual in ways I can't even describe. For a brief review, see www.librarything.com/work/148612
(2) Stuart Slade, "The Big One". B-36 atom bombing of Germany in 1947. I hear we really did originally develop the B-29 and B-36 to reach Germany from CONUS in case Britain fell and we lost the use of English airfields.