Been decades since I read the book.
Question is how did Japan and Germany get together and what did they do during the war?
I remember there was no Pearl Harbor because Isolationists control the US.
But why did Germany have to nuke DC if the USA was no threat?
I think they pretty much did what they did in our world only more successfully. They were loosely allied and conquered a lot of land. The invasion of the US may have been largely the desire to control both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific and to have more workers and natural resources.
We're not sure how isolationist the US would have been in this timeline. Most details were fairly vague in the book. In real life it was isolationist for a while, but highly sympathetic to the Allies and giving them aid.
It may have been feared that America was about to enter the war or otherwise harm the Axis powers. Or at least become the only real competition after the Soviet Union was gone.
Sorry, AFAIR, the book didn't give any special insight into either the source of the German/Japanese relationship in the TMitHC timeline or why Germany decided to actually invade the United States (nuking DC in the process) rather than either just dealing with the isolationist regime directly or trying to subvert it through domestic pro-Nazi groups.
shareI remember in one of the maps from the book, the south was changed to the Confederacy States of America. Is that accurate or were they still officially the USA?
shareI remember in one of the maps from the book, the south was changed to the Confederacy States of America. Is that accurate or were they still officially the USA?
Do the nazis have a space program in the book?
shareThe book is 80% about Juliana and the remaining 80% about the I Ching :-), there are no particular details about the state of German or Japanese advancements.
The TV show shares a title and some character names with the book. Very little else.
But the book does mention the space program and draining the Mediterranean. The Nazis in the book are more advanced than the show where these are plans for the future, not present realities.
shareI just reread the book. The Nazi's have been to both the moon and to Mars.
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