7) Alternate Generals, ed. Harry Turtledove (with editorial assistance from Roland Green, and Martin H. Greenberg getting copyright credit
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The best alternate-generals story I've ever read is Howard Waldrop's Ike at the Mike. Eisenhower and Patton as ancient rival swing-era big band musicians trying to blow each other off the stage at a presidential reception in front of Sen. Elvis Presley and Ambassador William Pratt (Boris Karloff)... now that is alternate history.
I really liked Turtledove's "Guns of the South, and having taken many classes about the Civil War, found the whole idea rather plausible. Unfortunately, right after that I read the "Two Georges" (co-written by Richard Dryfuss, I think) and another whose name I can't remember about the USA being influnced heavily by Dutch Protestantism or some sort that kind of swore me of the genre for awhile.
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Admittedly, I only picked up the book in the first place because of the David Weber story. Sometimes, I hate being a completist.
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Unfortunately, right after that I read the "Two Georges" (co-written by Richard Dryfuss, I think) and another whose name I can't remember about the USA being influnced heavily by Dutch Protestantism or some sort that kind of swore me of the genre for awhile.
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