The American Empire series is a trilogy of alternate history novels by Harry Turtledove. It follows How Few Remain and the Great War trilogy, and is part of the Timeline-191 series.

NovelsEdit

• Blood and Iron
• The Center Cannot Hold
• The Victorious Opposition

American EmpireEdit

Following the Great War, the United States and German Empire are the dominant world powers. The United States has occupied Canada (less the Republic of Quebec, a U.S. puppet state) and Sequoyah, has annexed Kentucky and portions of Texas, Arkansas, Sonora and Virginia, and has placed the rebellious state of Utah under military occupation. Having led the U.S. to victory, Theodore Roosevelt now faces a challenge to his third-term bid by the Socialist candidate Upton Sinclair, and struggles to maintain order in the occupied territories as rebels and terrorists strike.

Meanwhile, in a defeated Confederacy wracked by hyper-inflation and despair, a former Confederate Army sergeant named Jake Featherston and his Freedom Party are preaching a message of hate, blaming the southern aristocracy and the "niggers who stabbed us in the back" (ie. Red negro uprisings of 1915-16) 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, Alsace-Lorraine, and the Ukraine, and their vassal state of Poland. The Roman Catholic Action Francaise wishes to topple the Third Republic and enthrone Charles XI, while Oswald Mosley's Silver Shirts are a growing power in the British Parliament.

In 1929, like in OTL, the world economy crashes and the Great Depression begins, paving the way for fanatics and demagogues the world over to seize power.

In Canada, Canadian nationalists attempt a rebellion, but it fails. When the Japanese are caught giving aid to Canada in hopes of creating another rebellion, the U.S. goes to war, however it only ends in a stalemate and accomplishes nothing.

Thanks to the Great Depression, many in the CSA turn to the Freedom Party to turn things around. As a result, Jake Featherston is elected president in 1933. Almost immediately, he begins to take action in his intentions and gets rid of anyone in his way. He abolishes the supreme court when they veto his dam building project. He also begins enlarging the army, under the excuse that he needs to quell the black rebellion that begins to break out. Near the end of his term, he changes the constitution to allow him to run again for president and, having used his power to virtually wipe out all opposition, he essentially becomes president-for-life. As a result, his vice-president, Willy Knight, orders his assassination, however it fails. Featherston sends Knight to a prisoner camp in Louisiana.

Timeline-191Edit

It is followed by the Settling Accounts quadrilogy, of which the first book Return Engagement was published in August 2004.

v · d · e Southern Victory Books How Few Remain The Great War (American Front • Walk in Hell • Breakthroughs) American Empire (Blood and Iron • The Center Cannot Hold • The Victorious Opposition) Settling Accounts (Return Engagement • Drive to the East • The Grapple • In at the Death) 1 of 11 Add photo POV Characters Reggie Bartlett • Flora Blackford • Sam Carsten • Samuel Clemens • Anne Colleton • Tom Colleton • George Custer • Frederick Douglass • Jerry Dover • Abner Dowling • Cincinnatus Driver • George Enos • George Enos, Jr. • Sylvia Enos • Jake Featherston • Lucien Galtier • Armstrong Grimes • Thomas Jackson • Roger Kimball • Abraham Lincoln • Cassius Madison • Paul Mantarakis • Chester Martin • Arthur McGregor • Gordon McSweeney • Irving Morrell • Jonathan Moss • Leonard O'Doull • Jefferson Pinkard • Mary McGregor Pomeroy • Michael Pound • Clarence Potter • Stephen Ramsay • Hipolito Rodriguez • Jorge Rodriguez • Theodore Roosevelt • Scipio • Alfred von Schlieffen • Nellie Semphroch • Jeb Stuart Countries United States • Confederate States • Canada • Mexico • Republic of Quebec • Britain • France • Russia • Germany • Austria-Hungary • Ottoman Empire • Japan Events War of Secession • Second Mexican War • Great War • Pacific War • Second Great War Politicial Parties Democratic Party • Socialist Party • Republican Party • Whig Party • Radical Liberal Party • Freedom Party