American Empire: Blood and Iron

About “American Empire: Blood and Iron”

This 2001 novel is the third book in Harry Turtledove's alternate history American Empire series, premised on the question of what if the South had won the Civil War. Seventy years later, in 1934, Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party in the Confederate States, whips his country into a frenzy of hatred, rounding up Blacks into prison camps while forcing the U.S. to give up Florida and Kentucky, as the U.S. struggles with occupying Canada, rebellion in Utah, and war with Japan.