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Alternate Outcomes of the Second World War’ It is available for purchase on
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That old potboiler merchant Harry Turtledove has commenced a six-volume alternate-history series, "The War That Came Early" which has World War II commencing in 1938. The first book is "Hitler's War".
It sounds interesting but I wish Turtledove would restrict himself a little. 'Agent of Byzantium' and 'Guns of the South' were great in exploring counter-factual concepts but I agree that nowadays he drags things out far too much.
A trilogy is probably acceptable but these multiple volumes need a lot of commitment to work through, partly as the length means the plot and the characters develop so slowly. I suppose it is more profitable for him to write a sextet and anyway this seems to be the expectation of readers of science fiction and fantasy fiction especially in the USA.
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