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The Sapphire Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe long awaited sequel to the Kindle Time Travel Romance Bestseller THE RUBY BROOCH! The saga of the brooches continues in this Civil War Time Travel Romance... A Union soldier risks everything to save the life of Abraham Lincoln, while a Confederate surgeon races through time to preserve Lincoln’s Legacy. Reenactor Dr...Categorized as:
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![Operation Easy Street by William Peter Grasso]()
Operation Easy Street by William Peter Grasso
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPort Moresby was bad. Buna was worse.The WW2 alternative history adventure of Jock Miles continues as MacArthur orders American and Australian forces to seize Buna in Papua New Guinea. Once again, the Allied high command underestimates the Japanese defenders, plunging Jock and his men into a battle they’re not equipped to win... -
![The Confusion by Neal Stephenson]()
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold...Categorized as:
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![Goliath by Scott Westerfeld]()
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsAlek and Deryn are abroad the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant/maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath that can end the war. But whose side is he really on?While on their top-secret mission, Alek finally discovers Deryn's deeply kept secret. Two, actually. Not only is Deryn a girl disguised as a guy...she has feelings for Alek... -
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![WE SO FEW: BOOK 3 OF THE FIGHTING TOMCATS by M.L. Maki, Sofia Maki]()
WE SO FEW: BOOK 3 OF THE FIGHTING TOMCATS by M.L. Maki, Sofia Maki
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWE SO FEW Lieutenant Commander Samantha 'Spike' Hunt, commander of the Black Knights, and Captain James "Papa' Holtz, commander of Task Force Yankee, are charged with protecting Great Britain at all costs. Ten F-14s. Twelve pilots. Twelve RIOs. It is all the allies have to stand against the might of the German Luftwaffe...Categorized as:
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![Operation Fishwrapper by William Peter Grasso]()
Operation Fishwrapper by William Peter Grasso
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJune 1944: A recon flight is shot down over the Japanese-held island of Biak, soon to be the next jump in MacArthur’s leapfrogging across New Guinea. Major Jock Miles, US Army—the crashed plane’s intelligence officer—must lead the handful of survivors to safety. It’s a tall order for a man barely recovered from a near-crippling leg wound... -
![Long Walk To The Sun by William Peter Grasso]()
Long Walk To The Sun by William Peter Grasso
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this alternate history adventure set in WW2’s early days, a crippled US military struggles to defend vulnerable Australia against the unstoppable Japanese forces. When a Japanese regiment lands on Australia’s desolate and undefended Cape York Peninsula, Jock Miles, a US Army captain disgraced despite heroic actions at Pearl Harbor, is ordered to locate the enemy’s elusive command post... -
![Project 19 by Matt Jackson, James Rosone]()
Project 19 by Matt Jackson, James Rosone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings. What if Saddam Hussein ……hadn’t stopped with Kuwait?Project 19 might have worked.No one knows how close Iraq came to invading Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They wanted their money, and Saddam wanted revenge. In a world where the USSR ran a lend-lease program with the Iraqis, Saddam felt emboldened... -
![Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld]()
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsThe behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt... -
![An Oblique Approach by David Drake, Eric Flint]()
An Oblique Approach by David Drake, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOnly three things stand between the Malwa and the conquest of Earth: Byzantium, the empire of Rome in the East; a crystal that urges mankind to fight; and Belisarius, general of the Byzantine Empire, and arguably the greatest commmander the Earth has ever known... -
![To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis]()
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsConnie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...Categorized as:
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![1637: No Peace Beyond the Line by Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon]()
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line by Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE BATTLE FOR THE NEW WORLD IS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH! A NEW RING OF FIRE NOVEL BY BEST-SELLING WRITING TEAM ERIC FLINT AND CHARLES E. GANNONA New Day in the New WorldIt’s 1637 in the Caribbean. Commander Eddie Cantrell and his ally and friend Admiral Martin Tromp start it off with some nasty surprises for Spain, whose centuries-long exploitation and rapine of the New World has run unchecked...Categorized as:
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![A Prophet Without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History by Joseph Wurtenbaugh]()
A Prophet Without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History by Joseph Wurtenbaugh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘A Prophet Without Honor’ is that rare novel that provides a rich, entertaining and fully immersive reading experience, along with a resonant, thought-provoking subtext. Written in epistolary style and populated with interesting, fully-realized characters, the multi-general narrative is a seamless blend of authentic fact and sound speculation... -
![Men of War by William R. Forstchen]()
Men of War by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the aftermath of Gettysburg, the 35th Regiment of the Union Army were pulled through a time warp, leaving them stranded in a strange alien word. Now it's time for exploration -- and to discover a way to survive.. -
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![Tidal Rip by Joe Buff]()
Tidal Rip by Joe Buff
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA new world war has begun. It is the year 2012, and extremists in Germany and South Africa have succeeded in staging simultaneous coups to forge the Berlin-Boer Axis, a cabal determined to take over the world. The key instrument of this war is tactical nuclear weaponry, where a single torpedo or cruise missile can destroy an entire ship or city... -
![Never Sound Retreat by William R. Forstchen]()
Never Sound Retreat by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt has been 10 years since a group of American Civil War soldiers was swept away from the battlefields of Earth to a distant world--where the only place for a human is as a slave to an alien race... -
![Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen]()
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great “what if” of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee’s attempt to bring the war to a final conclusion by attacking Washington, D.C., fails...Categorized as:
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![Grant Comes East by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen]()
Grant Comes East by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn their runaway bestseller Gettysburg, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen answered the Civil War's ultimate hypothetical question: What if Lee's army had won the victory within its grasp at Gettysburg in 1863? Now, through the same extraordinary research and brilliant character studies, we take the next step of a provocative journey: The Army of Northern Virginia is poised to invade...Categorized as:
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![Valley Forge by Newt Gingrich]()
Valley Forge by Newt Gingrich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn To Try Men's Souls, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 and the man who would become the father of our nation, George Washington.Valley Forge picks up the narrative a year after Washington’s triumphant surprise attack on Trenton, and much has changed since then. It’s the winter of 1777, and Washington’s battered, demoralized army retreats from Philadelphia... -
![The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint, David Drake]()
The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsArmed with lancers, breech-loading rifles, steamships, and galleys, General Belisarius, accompanied by his own ally from the future, ventures into the Malwa Empire, a sixth-century kingdom ruled by Link, a horrifying and evil entity from the future...Categorized as:
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![Of Silk and Steam by Bec McMaster]()
Of Silk and Steam by Bec McMaster
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEnemies. Allies. Lovers.When her beloved father was assassinated, Lady Aramina swore revenge. The man responsible is well beyond her grasp, but his dangerously seductive heir, Leo Barrons, is fair game. When Mina obtains evidence proving that Leo is illegitimate, she has the means to destroy both the killer and his son, a man who troubles her heart and tempts her body...Categorized as:
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![Firestorm by Taylor Anderson]()
Firestorm by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect...Categorized as:
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![All Clear by Connie Willis]()
All Clear by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the...Categorized as:
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![Forget the Alamo! by Drew McGunn]()
Forget the Alamo! by Drew McGunn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the explosion, Will didn’t expect to wake up again, especially in the past. Alive is good. Except he finds himself at the Alamo in 1836 in the body of another man doomed to die. If history repeats itself, Santa Anna is coming soon and the Alamo will fall, along with himself and 189 others. In a race against time itself, Will uses his knowledge of the future to change the past...Categorized as:
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![Opening Moves by Colin Gee]()
Opening Moves by Colin Gee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first of a series of books that cover World War Three, from July 1945 through to its close in September 1947... -
![Maid of Baikal by Preston Fleming]()
Maid of Baikal by Preston Fleming
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Armies at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919? MAID OF BAIKAL offers an alternative outcome to that war through the intervention of Zhanna Dorokhina, a young woman from the shores of Siberia’s Lake Baikal... -
![Fields of Gold by Shelley Adina]()
Fields of Gold by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 12 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!If a wedding won’t stop a war, what will?Gloria Meriwether-Astor’s belief in doing the right thing has carried her across the world and through dangers that would have felled a lesser woman. She believed that if she married the dashing Captain Fremont, she could approach the Viceroy of the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias with impunity...Categorized as:
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![Major by Marcin Ciszewski, Adam Ferency]()
Major by Marcin Ciszewski, Adam Ferency
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSierpień 2007 roku.Pierwszy Samodzielny Batalion Rozpoznawczy wyrusza na wojnę do Afganistanu. W wyniku diabolicznego spisku trafia jednak na pola bitew Wojny Obronnej w roku 1939…Kwiecień 1943 roku.Uwięzieni w czasie żołnierze batalionu kontynuują walkę z niemieckim okupantem i chronią pozostałości sprzętu przed niemieckimi i sowieckimi agentami... -
![Codi by Roxie McClaine]()
Codi by Roxie McClaine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA single mom who doesn't need a man. A luxury android who will prove her wrong.Codi can’t remember anything. He doesn’t know where he came from or why he’s in serious need of repairs. All he knows is that Denise rescued and re-activated him, and now he never wants to leave her side... -
![Battle Hymn by William R. Forstchen]()
Battle Hymn by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSwept through a time-space warp at the height of the Civil War, the 35th Maine found themselves stranded on an alien world. Now William R. Forstchen has written an all-new "Lost Regiment" adventure with an even more treacherous adversary... -
![Terrible Swift Sword by William R. Forstchen]()
Terrible Swift Sword by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA startling series that merges history with intrepid military science fiction in a fresh and energetic package, this latest edition proves that Forstchen's talent and possibilities are limitless. "Some of the best adventure writing in years!"--Science Fiction Chronicle... -
![To Try Men's Souls by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen]()
To Try Men's Souls by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington’s army... -
![Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling]()
Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Utterly engaging...a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans."--George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of ThronesIt's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century.. -
![Against the Tide of Years by S.M. Stirling]()
Against the Tide of Years by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology... -
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![Skykeep by Joseph R. Lallo]()
Skykeep by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt has taken some adjustment, but Nita Graus has made quite a home for herself among the crew of the Wind Breaker. Under her skillful care it has become one of the only airships to stay aloft without the continuous repair and oversight of the vile and manipulative fug folk...Categorized as:
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![Gettysburg by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen]()
Gettysburg by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Battle of Gettysburg has become the great "what if" of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable entry in the pantheon of Civil War literature and as a vivid novel of the realities of war...Categorized as:
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![1635: The Eastern Front by Eric Flint]()
1635: The Eastern Front by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident... -
![The Union Forever by William R. Forstchen]()
The Union Forever by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsColonel Andrew Keane and his blue-coated soldiers were not the first humans time-space-warped to a world so familiar yet so foreign. Humans abounded on the perverse planet-humans treated like cattle by the alien warrior overlords. Keane's Civil War weaponry defeated the swords, spears and crossbows of his monstrous adversaries... -
![Rustkiller by Dean F. Wilson]()
Rustkiller by Dean F. Wilson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to the Rust Valley. The Wild North is full of nasty places, but there are some places you just don’t go. One of them is that scrapyard desert known as the Rust Valley. It’s where vehicles go to die. That’s why you don’t go in after them. The bounty hunter Nox made a promise to himself that he’d never be caught dead there...Categorized as:
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![Theater of Spies by S.M. Stirling]()
Theater of Spies by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back...Categorized as:
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![Chosen of the Valkyries by Christopher G. Nuttall]()
Chosen of the Valkyries by Christopher G. Nuttall
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGermany, 1985. The Reich Council has fallen and the Reich is sundered in two, but the uneasy peace will not last long... -
![For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga by Robert Sobel]()
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga by Robert Sobel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA classic work of alternate history. Projects the far-reaching consequences if British General John Burgoyne had won this pivotal battle in the American Revolution and Britain had gone on to win the war...Categorized as:
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![East Wind Returns by William Peter Grasso]()
East Wind Returns by William Peter Grasso
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA young but veteran recon pilot in WW2 finds the fate of the greatest invasion in history—and the life of the nurse he loves—resting perilously on his shoulders. East Wind Returns is a story of WW2 set in July-November 1945 which explores a very different road to that conflict’s historic conclusion. The American war leaders grapple with a crippling setback: their secret atomic bomb does not work... -
![Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles, Michael Dobson]()
Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles, Michael Dobson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Third Reich has been routed...But the war is far from over. A new adversary is poised to attack on the eastern front.Former opponents George S. Patton and Erwin Rommel must join forces to neutralize the remnants of SS forces bent on carrying out the Reich's "Final Solution" in Eastern Europe... -
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![www.1944.waw.pl by Marcin Ciszewski]()
www.1944.waw.pl by Marcin Ciszewski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZałóżmy, że w czasy poprzedzające wybuch Powstania Warszawskiego trafia kilkuset współczesnych żołnierzy z początku XXI wieku z nowoczesnym sprzętem, wyszkoleniem i wiedzą. Mają pewien wpływ na rzeczywistość, a także czas, aby starannie przygotować tę jedyną w swoim rodzaju operację wojskową... -
![Countdown: The Liberators by Tom Kratman]()
Countdown: The Liberators by Tom Kratman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack in ActionOld Soldiers never die...except inside, when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose.And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader's son and heir has been kidnapped. We don't know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object... -
![Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon]()
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSpanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places...Categorized as:
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![The High-Tech Knight by Leo Frankowski]()
The High-Tech Knight by Leo Frankowski
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSomehow, Conrad Stargard, faithful Roman Catholic and stalwart Socialist of the Peoples Republic of Poland, 20th Century, had been marooned in Poland, A.D. 1231.Somehow, Conrad found himself under investigation by the Inquisition, got himself knighted, was granted his own fief, and made a few enemies... -
![A Web of Air by Philip Reeve]()
A Web of Air by Philip Reeve
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a travelling theatre. Now she arrives in the extraordinary crater city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on funicular rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs - but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets...Categorized as:
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![Breakthroughs by Harry Turtledove]()
Breakthroughs by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIs it the war to end all wars--or war without end? What began as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed a lightning assault on its enemies, soon spreads to North America, as a long-simmering hatred between two independent nations explodes in bloody combat. Twice in fifty years the Confederate States of America had humiliated their northern neighbor. Now revenge may at last be at hand...
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