The American Empire series is a trilogy

Trilogy

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 of alternate history

Alternate history (fiction)

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 novels by Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove

Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...

. It follows How Few Remain

How Few Remain

How Few Remain is a 1997 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the first part of the Southern Victory Series saga, which depicts a world in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War. The book received the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 1997, and was also nominated for...

 and the Great War

Great War (Harry Turtledove)

Great War is an alternate history trilogy by Harry Turtledove, which follows How Few Remain. It is part of Turtledove's Southern Victory Series series of novels...

 trilogy, and is part of the Southern Victory Series. It takes the Southern Victory Series Earth

Earth

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 from 1917 to 1941.

Novels

• 2001 American Empire: Blood and Iron
  American Empire: Blood and Iron
  American Empire: Blood and Iron is the first book of the American Empire trilogy of alternate history fiction novels by Harry Turtledove. It is a sequel to the novel How Few Remain and the Great War trilogy, and is part of the Southern Victory Series.Blood and Iron covers events directly following...
  
  
• 2002 American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
  American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
  American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold is the second book in the American Empire series by Harry Turtledove. It takes place during the period of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression...
  
  
• 2003 American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
  American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
  American Empire: The Victorious Opposition is the third and final book in the American Empire alternate history series by Harry Turtledove, and the seventh in the Southern Victory Series of books.-Plot summary:...
  
  

American Empire

Following the Great War

Great War (Harry Turtledove)

Great War is an alternate history trilogy by Harry Turtledove, which follows How Few Remain. It is part of Turtledove's Southern Victory Series series of novels...

, the United States

United States

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 and German Empire

German Empire

The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...

 are the dominant world powers. The United States has occupied Canada (less the Republic of Quebec

Quebec

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, a U.S. puppet state

Puppet state

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) and Sequoyah

State of Sequoyah

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 (Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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), has annexed Kentucky

Kentucky

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 and portions of Texas

Texas

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, Arkansas

Arkansas

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, Sonora

Sonora

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 and Virginia

Virginia

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, and has placed the rebellious state of Utah

Utah

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 under military occupation. Having led the U.S. to victory, Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

 now faces a challenge to his third-term bid by the Socialist candidate Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...

, and struggles to maintain order in the occupied territories as rebels and terrorists strike.

Meanwhile, in a defeated Confederacy wracked by inflation

Inflation

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 and despair, a former Confederate Army sergeant named Jake Featherston

Jake Featherston

Jacob "Jake" Featherston is a fictional character inthe Southern Victory Series novel series by Harry Turtledove. He is the fictional timeline's equivalent of Adolf Hitler.-Character introduction:...

 and his Freedom Party are preaching a message of hate, blaming the southern aristocracy

Aristocracy

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 and the "niggers who stabbed us in the back" for the Confederacy's defeat.

The European situations mirrors North America: the aging Kaiser Wilhelm II and his victorious Germans fight to hold onto captured Belgium

Belgium

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, Alsace-Lorraine

Alsace-Lorraine

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, and the Ukraine

Ukraine

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, and their vassal state

Vassal state

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 of Poland

Poland

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. The Roman Catholic monarchists

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 of Action Française

Action Française

The Action Française , founded in 1898, is a French Monarchist counter-revolutionary movement and periodical founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois and whose principal ideologist was Charles Maurras...

 wish to topple the Third Republic and enthrone Charles XI, while Mosley's

Oswald Mosley

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 Silver Shirts

British Union of Fascists

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 are a growing power in the British Parliament

Parliament

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.

As the 1920s draw to a close the world economy crashes and the Great Depression

Great Depression

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 begins, paving the way for fanatics and demagogues the world over to seize power.

Southern Victory Series

It is followed by the Settling Accounts

Settling Accounts (Harry Turtledove)

The Settling Accounts tetralogy is an alternate history setting of World War II by Harry Turtledove in North America, presupposing that the Confederate States of America won the U.S. Civil War. It is part of the Southern Victory Series, following How Few Remain and trilogies Great War and...

 tetralogy, of which the first book Return Engagement

Settling Accounts: Return Engagement

Return Engagement is the first book of Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts series of alternate history novels. It is an analogy of World War II being waged on American soil between the United States and the Confederate States....

was published in August 2004.