American Empire (Harry Turtledove)

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The American Empire series is a trilogy of alternate history novels by Harry Turtledove. It follows How Few Remain and the Great War trilogy, and is part of the Timeline-191 series.

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[edit] American Empire

Following the Great War, the United States and German Empire are the dominant world powers. The United States has occupied Canada (less the Republic of Quebec, a U.S. puppet state) and Sequoyah (Oklahoma), has annexed Kentucky and portions of Texas, Arkansas, Sonora and Virginia, and has placed the rebellious state of Utah under military occupation. Having led the U.S. to victory, Theodore Roosevelt now faces a challenge to his third-term bid by the Socialist candidate Upton Sinclair, and struggles to maintain order in the occupied territories as rebels and terrorists strike.

Meanwhile, in a defeated Confederacy wracked by inflation and despair, a former Confederate Army sergeant named Jake Featherston and his Freedom Party are preaching a message of hate, blaming the southern aristocracy and the "niggers who stabbed us in the back" for the Confederacy's defeat.

The European situations mirrors North America: the aging Kaiser Wilhelm II and his victorious Germans fight to hold onto captured Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, and the Ukraine, and their vassal state of Poland. The Roman Catholic fascists of Action Française wish to topple the Third Republic and enthrone Charles XI, while Mosley's Silver Shirts are a growing power in the British Parliament.

As the 1920s draw to a close the world economy crashes and the Great Depression begins, paving the way for fanatics and demagogues the world over to seize power.

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It is followed by the Settling Accounts trilogy, of which the first book Return Engagement was published in August 2004.

Series of Books by Harry Turtledove
Videssos Books	Videssos Cycle	The Misplaced Legion \| An Emperor for the Legion \| The Legion of Videssos \| The Swords of the Legion
	The Tale of Krispos Series	Krispos Rising \| Krispos of Videssos \| Krispos the Emperor
	Time of Troubles Series	The Stolen Throne \| Hammer and Anvil \| The Thousand Cities \| Videssos Besieged
		The Bridge of the Separator
Worldwar & Colonization Series	Worldwar Tetralogy	In the Balance \| Tilting the Balance \| Upsetting the Balance \| Striking the Balance
	Colonization	Second Contact \| Down to Earth \| Aftershocks
		Homeward Bound
Southern Victory or Timeline-191 Books		How Few Remain
	The Great War Trilogy	American Front \| Walk in Hell \| Breakthroughs
	The American Empire Trilogy	Blood and Iron \| The Center Cannot Hold \| The Victorious Opposition
	The Settling Accounts Tetralogy	Return Engagement \| Drive to the East \| The Grapple \| In at the Death
Darkness Series		Into the Darkness \| Darkness Descending \| Through the Darkness \| Rulers of the Darkness \| Jaws of the Darkness \| Out of the Darkness
War Between the Provinces Series		Sentry Peak \| Marching Through Peachtree \| Advance and Retreat
Hellenic Traders Series		Over the Wine Dark Sea \| The Gryphon's Skull \| The Sacred Land \| Owls to Athens
Crosstime Traffic Series		Gunpowder Empire \| Curious Notions \| In High Places \| The Disunited States of America \| The Gladiator
Pacific War Series		Days of Infamy \| End of the Beginning
Scepter of Mercy Series		The Chernagor Pirates \| The Bastard King \| The Scepter's Return
Other Books by Harry Turtledove
Agent of Byzantium \| A Different Flesh \| Noninterference \| Kaleidoscope \| A World Of Difference \| Earthgrip \| The Guns of the South \| The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump \| Departures \| Down in the Bottomlands \| The Two Georges \| Thessalonica \| Between the Rivers \| Justinian \| Household Gods \| Counting Up, Counting Down \| Ruled Britannia \| In the Presence of Mine Enemies \| Conan of Venarium \| Every Inch a King \| Fort Pillow \| Beyond the Gap \| The Battle of Teutoberg Forest