Settling Accounts: In at the Death by Harry Turtledove

The Epic Alternate History Series Comes to an End - Maybe

Settling Accounts: In at the Death is the eleventh and it is said the last of the long running Southern Victory Series by master of alternate history Harry Turtledove. But since In at the Death sets up so many possibilities for future stories, one should not bet any money on it being the last.

For those who have not read the series, the premise of the Southern Victory series is that the Confederacy won the War of Secession in the 1860s. The series began with a prequel novel, How Few Remain, which depicted a conflict between the United States and the Confederate States in the 1880s over the latter country's annexation of a number of Mexican states. There followed three books collectively entitled The Great War which depicted an American front of a far more savage World War I in which the United States was an ally of Germany and the Confederacy an ally of Britain, France, and Russia. Three books collectively entitled American Empire were next, telling what happened in the 1920s and 1930s, mainly depicting this world's version of the Great Depression and the rise of a fascist state in the Confederacy. Four books entitled Settling Accounts comprised this world's World War II, fought by America and a Germany still ruled by the Kaiser on one side, the Confederacy, England, France, Russia, and Japan on the other.