6 alternate-history novels

Stephen King's "11/22/63" is only the latest book that imagines what might have been if history had gone a little differently.

4. "Fatherland," by Robert Harris

Hitler won World War II and Germany and the US have been facing off in a Cold War, but that may soon change – President Joseph Kennedy is due for a visit in Germany soon. Meanwhile, detective Xavier March is on the case of a state secretary who turned up dead, but the answer to the mystery may go all the way to the top of the government.

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