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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I love Alternate History, but I can see the genre dying out from a lack of willingness to consider ALL of history! All cultures!
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Harry Turtledove, though deserving of criticism that he's done a lot of alternate U.S. Civil War, WWI, and WWII timelines (even long series of such), does have something up his sleeve that is more along the lines of what you're asking. His World War/Colonization set is about Earth being invaded by aliens during WWII. One of the books strengths is that it's a true global story, spending time as you would expect in the U.S., the Soviet Union, Germany, and the UK, but it also spends a great deal of time in Poland and China, as well as stops in the Middle East, Canada, outer space, the open sea, and beyond. His use of language changes impressively from locale to locale, and faction to faction, as well. I highly recommend it.