The European War

October 4, 1938. Neville Chamberlain steps off a plane in London, waving a piece of paper and promising peace for our time. In our history, he lived long enough to see that promise broken. In this one, he doesn't.

When Chamberlain dies of a heart attack on the return flight from Paris, the Munich Agreement is signed but never ratified. Parliament never votes. And when the King sends for a new Prime Minister, the man who answers is Winston Churchill.

The European War is a four-book alternate history series that follows the war that erupts when Churchill takes power eighteen months early. Germany attacks France before Poland. France falls in the spring of 1940. Poland falls in April 1941. Moscow falls in September 1941. America, consumed by its own war in the Pacific, never declares war on Germany. And in the Mediterranean, Gibraltar holds while the world burns around it.

The series follows the war through the eyes of soldiers, spies, politicians, and industrialists on every side of the conflict, from the Sudetenland to Dunkirk to the oil fields of the Caucasus. It is the other half of the story that begins in The American War. Both series converge at El Alamein on July 23, 1942.

Inspired by the same family history and meticulous research that produced The American War. For readers of Ken Follett, Jeff Shaara, and Robert Harris.