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Written by the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen, the novel depicts a world in which UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt [[ForWantOfANail survived his assassination attempt in 1939.]] However, to honor the two-term limit of George Washington, he decides not to run in the next election. His successor, Rexford Tugwell, decides to move the Pacific Fleet out of Pearl Harbor, sparing them from the attack by the Japanese. This ensures America remains a strong naval power and enters the war alongside the allies.
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Written by the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen, the novel depicts a world in which UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt [[ForWantOfANail survived his assassination attempt in 1939.]] 1939. However, to honor the two-term limit of George Washington, he decides not to run in the next election. His successor, Rexford Tugwell, decides to move the Pacific Fleet out of Pearl Harbor, sparing them from the attack by the Japanese. This ensures America remains a strong naval power and enters the war alongside the allies.
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* FamousLastWords: Hitler's last words are "Deutsche, hier steh' ich," or "Germans, here I stand."
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* EnemyMine: You wouldn't expect a democratic America and military controlled China to ally with each other, but they are united in opposition of British Colonialism.
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*HellholePrison / POWCamp: [[spoiler: Britain sets these up for asians after there is instability in places like Singapore]].
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->''"I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."''
-->-- '''Winston Churchill'''
One of the most famous [[note]] fictional [[/note]] works of AlternateHistory fiction ever written. One so controversial that it's been banned in several countries.
Written by the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen, the novel depicts a world in which UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt [[ForWantOfANail survived his assassination attempt in 1939.]] However, to honor the two-term limit of George Washington, he decides not to run in the next election. His successor, Rexford Tugwell, decides to move the Pacific Fleet out of Pearl Harbor, sparing them from the attack by the Japanese. This ensures America remains a strong naval power and enters the war alongside the allies.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the United Kingdom retains a great deal of its military-industrial complex and thus never falls to the Axis. Instead, not only do they halt Germany's westward expansion, they crush Rommel's campaign in North Africa before sweep in through the Caucasus to assist the Soviets at the Battle of Stalingrad. In the east, Chiang Kai-Shek defeats the communists and Nationalist China becomes as strong ally to the United States against Japan.
With British and Soviet tanks closing in on Berlin, as well as American ships closing in on Tokyo, Hitler and Hirohito surrender. The allies win World War II.
The novel is set in 1962,
[[spoiler: In case you're wondering, no, this isn't a real novel. It's actually an expansion on the BookWithinABook featured in ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle.'']]
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AlternateHistory: Duh.
* BalkanizeMe:
* The Soviet Union loses Ukraine and Belarus, and is eventually split between America and the British Empire.
** By 2001, [[spoiler: America splits up into 16 nations, all of which are assimilated into the British Empire.]]
* BannedInChina: The book is illegal throughout the Greater German Reich and its territories, and ownership of it can earn you ''serious'' punishments.
* TheEmpire: The British Empire, never dismantled by the Germans, continues to grow and expand, eventually [[spoiler: swallowing the entire world]].
* FamousLastWords: Hitler's last words are "Deutsche, hier steh' ich," or "Germans, here I stand."
* HeelFaceTurn: Italy and Hungary turn away from the Axis and help the Allies bring down Germany.
* InSpiteOfANail: Even without the Axis powers, the world is still split in two by the Americans and the British.
** The Soviet Union still crumbles.
** America [[spoiler: is still divided.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Gandhi's death. The world believes it was a tragic case of mistaken identity, but the novel makes it clear- and many Indian nationalists-
* OneWorldOrder: [[spoiler: By the dawn of the 21st century, the British Empire comes to dominate the world.]]
* ShinyNewAustralia: In return for their assistance during the Indian rebellion, the British promise the Sikhs their own state.
* TraumaCongaLine: The Soviet Union never catches a break, does it?
** Stalin's sudden death in 1946 leaves a power vacuum, especially since he'd purged every single one of his named successors for disloyalty.
** A nationalist uprising in Ukraine forces many Soviet forces to be moved away from the front lines to ensure supplies lines aren't broken. When they finally do break the German lines in occupied Poland, the war comes to an end not two days later, and Tugwell and Churchill decide there's no place for a communist dictatorship on the continent. The victory treaty forces them to grant independence to Ukraine and Belarus.
** A cholera outbreak kills 200,000 in Central Russia in the summer of 1947.
** The Russian civil war serves to further devastate the country, and sounds the final death knell for its existence. America occupies Siberia and the British take everything west of the Ural Mountains, creating the states of East and West Russia.
-->-- '''Winston Churchill'''
One of the most famous [[note]] fictional [[/note]] works of AlternateHistory fiction ever written. One so controversial that it's been banned in several countries.
Written by the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen, the novel depicts a world in which UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt [[ForWantOfANail survived his assassination attempt in 1939.]] However, to honor the two-term limit of George Washington, he decides not to run in the next election. His successor, Rexford Tugwell, decides to move the Pacific Fleet out of Pearl Harbor, sparing them from the attack by the Japanese. This ensures America remains a strong naval power and enters the war alongside the allies.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the United Kingdom retains a great deal of its military-industrial complex and thus never falls to the Axis. Instead, not only do they halt Germany's westward expansion, they crush Rommel's campaign in North Africa before sweep in through the Caucasus to assist the Soviets at the Battle of Stalingrad. In the east, Chiang Kai-Shek defeats the communists and Nationalist China becomes as strong ally to the United States against Japan.
With British and Soviet tanks closing in on Berlin, as well as American ships closing in on Tokyo, Hitler and Hirohito surrender. The allies win World War II.
The novel is set in 1962,
[[spoiler: In case you're wondering, no, this isn't a real novel. It's actually an expansion on the BookWithinABook featured in ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle.'']]
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AlternateHistory: Duh.
* BalkanizeMe:
* The Soviet Union loses Ukraine and Belarus, and is eventually split between America and the British Empire.
** By 2001, [[spoiler: America splits up into 16 nations, all of which are assimilated into the British Empire.]]
* BannedInChina: The book is illegal throughout the Greater German Reich and its territories, and ownership of it can earn you ''serious'' punishments.
* TheEmpire: The British Empire, never dismantled by the Germans, continues to grow and expand, eventually [[spoiler: swallowing the entire world]].
* FamousLastWords: Hitler's last words are "Deutsche, hier steh' ich," or "Germans, here I stand."
* HeelFaceTurn: Italy and Hungary turn away from the Axis and help the Allies bring down Germany.
* InSpiteOfANail: Even without the Axis powers, the world is still split in two by the Americans and the British.
** The Soviet Union still crumbles.
** America [[spoiler: is still divided.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Gandhi's death. The world believes it was a tragic case of mistaken identity, but the novel makes it clear- and many Indian nationalists-
* OneWorldOrder: [[spoiler: By the dawn of the 21st century, the British Empire comes to dominate the world.]]
* ShinyNewAustralia: In return for their assistance during the Indian rebellion, the British promise the Sikhs their own state.
* TraumaCongaLine: The Soviet Union never catches a break, does it?
** Stalin's sudden death in 1946 leaves a power vacuum, especially since he'd purged every single one of his named successors for disloyalty.
** A nationalist uprising in Ukraine forces many Soviet forces to be moved away from the front lines to ensure supplies lines aren't broken. When they finally do break the German lines in occupied Poland, the war comes to an end not two days later, and Tugwell and Churchill decide there's no place for a communist dictatorship on the continent. The victory treaty forces them to grant independence to Ukraine and Belarus.
** A cholera outbreak kills 200,000 in Central Russia in the summer of 1947.
** The Russian civil war serves to further devastate the country, and sounds the final death knell for its existence. America occupies Siberia and the British take everything west of the Ural Mountains, creating the states of East and West Russia.
