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Designated Targets

John Birmingham · 448 pages

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass de

Alternate HistoryTime TravelWorld War IIMilitary Sci-Fi
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Striking the Balance

Harry Turtledove · 560 pages

Alternate HistoryWorld War IIMilitary Sci-FiSoldiers and Warfare
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River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

Alternate HistoryMilitary Sci-FiWorld War IISoldiers and Warfare
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Distant Thunders

Taylor Anderson · 416 pages

The fourth thrilling adventure in the Destroyermen series.After the battle in which the men of the destroyer Walker and their Lemurian allies repelled the savage Grik, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is shocked by the arrival of a strange ship captained by one Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy-an island-nation populated by the descendants of British East Indiamen swept through th

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareWorld War IIMilitary Sci-Fi
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Island in the Sea of Time

S.M. Stirling · 608 pages

It'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...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, i

Time TravelAlternate HistoryPlot-DrivenSprawling Epic
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1634 The Baltic War

Eric Flint, David Weber · 728 pages

The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark.

Alternate HistoryTime TravelSoldiers and WarfarePlot-Driven
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1632

Eric Flint · 550 pages

A small West Virginia town is permanently transplanted to 1632 Germany, in the middle of the 30-years war.

Alternate HistoryTime TravelPlot-DrivenSoldiers and Warfare
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

Alternate HistoryPlot-DrivenSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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On the Oceans of Eternity

S.M. Stirling, Todd McLaren · 630 pages

Ten years ago, inhabitants of the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by the Event. But as two worlds converge, only one can be the victor in a battle to lead this strange new world.

Alternate HistoryTime TravelSoldiers and WarfareSprawling Epic
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The Proteus Operation

James P. Hogan · 480 pages

Alternate HistoryTime TravelWorld War IIPlot-Driven
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Rewinder

Brett Battles · 251 pages

Denny was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak fortunes abruptly change when the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruits him to be a Rewinder, a verifier of personal histories. The job at first sounds like it involves researching old books and records, but Denny soon learns it's far from it. A Rewinder's job is to observe history. In person.--from back cover.

Time TravelAlternate HistoryPlot-DrivenScience Fiction
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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

P.W. Singer, August Cole · 416 pages

"What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "ghos

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfarePlot-DrivenScience Fiction
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Blackout

Connie Willis · 528 pages

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide--and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. S

Time TravelWorld War IISprawling EpicMultiple POV
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An Oblique Approach

David Drake, Eric Flint · 480 pages

Alternate HistoryTime TravelPlot-DrivenSoldiers and Warfare
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Fear the Sky

Stephen Moss · 394 pages

Military Sci-FiPlot-DrivenScience FictionSoldiers and Warfare
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Days of Infamy

Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen · 400 pages

Alternate HistoryWorld War IISoldiers and WarfareSprawling Epic
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Necessary Evil

Ian Tregillis

"12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II. Again. Raybould Marsh, one of "our" Britain's best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the Cthulhu-like monsters who have been observing our species from space and have already destroyed Marsh's timeline. In order to accomplish this, he must remove all traces of t

Alternate HistoryTime TravelWorld War IIScience Fiction
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Morning Star

Pierce Brown · 544 pages

Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing to fight for the future that his wife believed in, Darrow joins a secret revolutionary group and is remade into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the ruling class and bring them down from the inside. Now, after years of hiding amongst the Golds, Darrow is finally ready to declare open revol

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfarePlot-DrivenSprawling Epic
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The Company of the Dead

David Kowalski · 744 pages

Alternate HistoryTime TravelSprawling EpicSoldiers and Warfare
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1635: Cannon Law

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis · 500 pages

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th-century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between the king of Sweden and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns, in Flint's latest novel.

Alternate HistoryTime TravelSprawling EpicMultiple POV
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Gust Front

John Ringo · 736 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfarePlot-DrivenScience Fiction
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Out of the Black

Evan Currie · 440 pages

Deep in blackest space, the Drasin have watched humanity's journey to the stars - and determined that a species as barbaric as ours has no place in the cosmos. The wreckage of the starship Odyssey, once Earth's greatest guardian, lies strewn across New York City. Abandoned by all but its captain, Odyssey's sacrifice covered the withdrawal of countless troops as the Drasin assault ravaged the plane

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfarePlot-DrivenScience Fiction
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Halo: Contact Harvest

Joseph Staten · 400 pages

Based on the universe and characters from the multimillion selling Xbox video games Halo and Halo 2, Halo: Contact Harvest continues the story of humanity's next great battle in their ongoing wars against the seemingly infinite alien factions who consider the human race heathens. This is how it began... It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human

Military Sci-FiPlot-DrivenSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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Red Inferno: 1945

Robert Conroy · 353 pages

Imagines an alternate-history World War II in which the United States fatefully takes Churchill and Patton's controversial advice to invade Berlin to prevent Stalin's expansion into Europe.

Alternate HistoryWorld War IISoldiers and WarfarePlot-Driven

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