[FReepaholic]

...The Civil War trilogy by Newt Gingrich and Bill Fortschen,...

These are excellent books. Very well written and imaginative. However, I found Newt's books about Pearl Harbor sorely lacking. Couldn't finish them.

S.M. Stirling's "Dies The Fire" series is excellent. "This world is hit by "The Change" causing electricity, high gas pressures, and fast combustion (including explosives and gunpowder) to stop working. This is very bad news for the majority of the population, but the books follow some of the survivors and show how different groups choose different ways to adapt to the changed world."

[LS]

Totally agree with the Pearl Harbor books. BTW, I have a new novel, "Halsey's Bluff," which is a counter-factual about the battle of Midway---Halsey is in charge, and he loses . . . but escapes to fight again!

I think it's much better than the Newt books, and I'm hoping it will be up on Amazon by Christmas.

[mathluv]

I enjoyed the first two books about Pearl Harbor, and can hardly wait for the next. Of course, it is a personnel thing for me, since I was born 4 days after that event.

If anyone is into Christian fiction, Colleen Coble and Dee Henderson are very good. There are also some series about the war in the middle East that are good - Don Brown has the Navy Justice series; Chuck Holton is another.