The War That Came Early Series by Harry Turtledove

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  • Hitler's War (The War That Came Early #1)
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    Hitler's War (The War That Came Early #1)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2009

    A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared... more

  • West and East (The War That Came Early #2)
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    West and East (The War That Came Early #2)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2010

    In 1938, two men held history in their hands. One was Adolf Hitler. The other was British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who, determined to avoid war at any cost, came to be known as “the great appeaser... more

  • The Big Switch (The War That Came Early #3)
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    The Big Switch (The War That Came Early #3)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2011

    In this extraordinary World War II alternate history, master storyteller Harry Turtledove begins with a big switch: what if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up to him in 1938? Enraged, Hitler reacts by lashing out at the West, promising his soldiers that they will reach Paris by the new year. They don’t. Three years later, his genocidal apparatus not fully in place, Hitler has barely survived a coup, while Jews cling to survival... more

  • Coup d'Etat (The War That Came Early #4)
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    Coup d'Etat (The War That Came Early #4)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2012

    In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels—and so does a different World War II.In Harry Turtledove’s mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin’s terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers... more

  • Two Fronts (The War That Came Early #5)
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    Two Fronts (The War That Came Early #5)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2013

    In 1942, two nations switch sides—and World War II takes a horrifying new course. In the real world, England and France allowed Adolf Hitler to gobble up the Sudetenland in 1938. Once Hitler finished dismembering Czechoslovakia, he was ready to go to war over Poland a year later. But Hitler had always been eager to seize Czechoslovakia, no matter the consequences... more

  • Last Orders (The War That Came Early #6)
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    Last Orders (The War That Came Early #6)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2014

    In an extraordinary saga of nations locked in war, master storyteller Harry Turtledove tells the story of World War II, which begins over Czechoslovakia rather than Poland, eleven months earlier than it really came. Now we have the final installment in Turtledove’s landmark World War II series.   Hitler’s Plan A was to win in a hurry, striking hard and deep into France. There was no Plan B. Now the war grinds on. Countries have been forced into strange alliances... more

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