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What if the 13 colonies never united?
After failing to unite in 1776, the splintered republics of North America are pawns in a Cold War between the 21st-century’s superpowers – the USSR and Francia, the empire born of Napoleon’s victory at Waterloo. Blending espionage, romance, and vivid historical flashback chapters, Tobacco Republic is a “provocative and unforgettable” alternative history. (Historical Novel Society)
2007 - After a large shale oil deposit is discovered beneath the Pennsylvania and Virginia border, both nations begin drilling under the others’ territory. As a bluff to stop the poaching, each country deploys troops to the area. When a rogue Pennsylvania general begins shelling Virginia, the powder keg explodes. By war's end, most of the fracking operations in both nations are destroyed—leaving both countries poorer than before.
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2012 - As the competition for dominance escalates between the USSR and Francia, the impoverished Britannic nations become proxies in their global Cold War. Germany and other once-sovereign European nations see the superpower tensions as an opportunity to reclaim their independence. Most of the world fears a nuclear apocalypse
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2030 - Sensing political divisions within Francia, a German separatist group plans to launch their war of liberation by destroying the Arc de Triomphe on the anniversary of Frederick the Great’s coronation. The Germans form a clandestine alliance with a dissident group from Virginia also eager to shed Francia's yoke. With Francia and the USSR on high defcon status, the attack could ignite a global war.
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