Do any of the people like Alternative history?
The series by Harry Turtledove is very good, starting with "How Few Remain" and going up to WW2....
He also wrote "The Guns of the South", a story in which the CSA gets the AK-47 in 1864.....
Both "What If" and "What If II" are excellent books with short essays by top historians covering things in history that could have gone another way. Not too dense or academic.
Wish someone would have covered "What if the Russians Won the Russo-Japanese War" though.
That would have completely changed World History in every conceivable way. I'm sure there would have been no Communist Revolution eventually in Russia, and Japan likely would have never attacked the US.
"The series by Harry Turtledove is very good, starting with "How Few Remain" and going up to WW2.... "
I tried reading Turtledove's Worldwar series (on WWII)--I very much enjoyed the first volume: In the Balance. I liked it so much I bought the other 3 in the series, in fact. But by the end of the second one I was thoroughly displeased with it. Sam Yeager...I despise him. I also would have liked more from the "great man" perspective. And the plot kept repeating itself over and over again. Anyway, would you recommend the Civil War novels? I am willing to give them a shot but fear experiencing more disillusionment.
That was an interesting twist on time travel.
**Do any of the people like Alternative history? **
I think Harry Harrison's Eden series has to be one of the best Alternative History series ever written.
For a person who likes time travel and history, I also liked Jack Finney's Time and Again (about going back in time to gaslight-era New York City).
I like Dean Koontz also.
For nonfiction, how about Kings of the Hill by Dick and Lynne Cheney? That is probably out of print, though.