Fort Pillow: A straight historical account of a massacre of black soldiers by Confederates during the Civil War. Essentially a fantasy adaptation of the real-life Otto Witte's story. Every Inch a King: In a fantasy world cribbed from the pre-WWI Balkans, an alternate-German circus performer impersonates a king the alternate-Turks are supposedly sending to rule alternate-Albania. The story also features a surviving Neanderthal nation with technology identical to that of modern humans in both timelines. Down in the Bottomlands: A novella in which a vast sunken desert occupies the Mediterranean basin, which in TTL never refilled as it did millions of years ago in OTL. Between the Rivers: A novel about a version of Mesopotamia ruled by Physical Gods. The Atlantis series: Thanks to Alternate Universe Continental Drift, the Eastern seaboard of North America becomes a giant island continent that is discovered and settled by Englishmen and Bretons in the 15th Century. Agent of Byzantium: A Byzantine spy in a world where Muhammad converted to Christianism deals with plots that threaten an Eastern Roman Empire that never fell. He initially advises the kingdom of tall white blondes where he lands, but his views of racial supremacy are challenged by events.and his sexual partners. After the Downfall: A Wehrmacht officer is magically transported to a medieval fantasy world during the fall of Berlin. 
The Two Georges (with Richard Dreyfuss - yes, the actor). 
Over the Wine-Dark Sea, first book of the Hellenic Traders series (as H. 
Works by Harry Turtledove with their own trope pages include: Known for having a PhD in Byzantine history, some of his books feature this period while others, set in more modern times, sometimes lampshade the fact that this area is considered extraordinarily obscure even among historians. He actually does historical research for his novels, and footnotes some of them. He has written many, many books and short stories, some of them set in Alternate Universes, some of them fantasy diverging from recorded history. Most of his work is Alternate History - among the most prolific and accessible. Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an author.
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