Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is definitely running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian called Harry Truman at his aspect. Britain holds onto its eager alliance using the U.S.A.’s most severe enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove’s compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a battle of secession has triggered a era of madness. The tipping point has come finally.

The 3rd war in sixty years, that one yet unnamed: a grinding, horrifying series of hostilities and atrocities between two nations sharing the same continent and both calling themselves Americans. On the dawn of 1944, america has beaten back again a daredevil blitzkrieg through the Confederate States, and a terrible new genie has gone out of history’s container: a bomb that may eliminate on a level never thought before. In European countries, the new tool has shattered a stalemate between Germany, England, and Russia. When the result in is pulled in America, nothing will be the same again.