Beneath Gray Skies

This is a historical fiction book based on the premise that there was no Civil War because Lincoln was ill and his underlings decided not to re-provision Fort Sumter and thus provoke a shooting incident. So the story moves quickly to 1923, with the Confederate States of American still existing.

The Confederate States of America has not developed technologically like the North, and their country seems to be under the control of religious extremists. Germany and the CSA are having discussions about an alliance. Slavery still exists, and the South has controls on Jews which are approved by the German representative, who is Hitler. They want to 'borrow' some Southern troops to help them get control of the German government and all Germany. The CSA has pretty much become a dictatorship.

Brian saves a black servant from being lynched by four white guys. One interesting thing that is revealed is that the Confederacy teaches creationism in its schools.

What Hitler had not planned on was that not everyone working for him cared for him. Or that the English and United States governments would fully cooperate on an effort to stop them from making successful ties with the Confederacy.

You can easily see just how complex the relations between the two countries were, and how they had to work together and through their spies in the Confederacy and through unhappy Germans to take care of two birds with one stone.

And a couple of missiles.

A really good story.

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