In 1881, a generation after the South won the Civil War, the peace is shattered. Furious over the annexation of American territory, the United States declares total war against the Confederacy. In this second American Civil War the times, stake and battle lines have changed - and so has history.

World War II seethed across the planet. Hostilities spread in ever-widening circles of destruction. Then the real enemy arrived. Out of the skies came an inhuman invasion force, their weaponary overwhelming and with a simple goal: Fleetlord Atvar had arrived to claim Earth for the Empire.

The first in Harry Turtledove's massive new First World War series...

It's 1915, and the Great War is intensifying, and the time of darkness has come. The slaves of the South have risen against their masters, taken on the creed of Bolshevism and are attacking the Confederacy. But the US remains pinned between their southern rival and the other enemy, Canada.

The definitive alternate history - an engrossing future that never was.