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Robert Conroy Books in Order

See Robert Conroy's books in order, with short summaries, alternate history highlights, and clear guidance on where to start and what to read next.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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16 books

1901

by Robert Conroy

1995

After the Spanish-American War, Kaiser Wilhelm II decides the United States should hand over its new territories. When Washington refuses, Germany lands troops on Long Island, and an unready America must fight for New York and much more.

1862

by Robert Conroy

2006

The Trent Affair turns disastrous when Britain joins the Confederacy and the Union suddenly faces a war on two fronts. Conroy follows soldiers and leaders through a darker Civil War where defeat starts to look possible.

1945

by Robert Conroy

2007

Japan refuses to surrender after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Pacific war lurches into a bloody new phase. As invasion plans move forward, soldiers, civilians, and prisoners all pay the price for a war that will not end.

1942

by Robert Conroy

2009

In this alternate Pearl Harbor aftermath, Japan strikes harder and then seizes Hawaii. American soldiers, spies, and civilians are left to resist occupation while the United States searches for a way to win the islands back.

Red Inferno

by Robert Conroy

2010

With Allied forces pushing past the Elbe toward Berlin, Stalin reads the move as a threat and turns former partners into enemies. World War II ends only to become a brutal new war between the West and the Soviet Union.

Castro's Bomb

by Robert Conroy

2011

A year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Castro seizes leftover Soviet weapons, takes Guantanamo Bay, and threatens the United States. Kennedy has to stop a fast-moving showdown before it becomes full nuclear war.

Himmler's War

by Robert Conroy

2011

When a chance bombing kills Hitler in 1944, Himmler takes control of Nazi Germany and tries to reshape the endgame. The Allies must decide whether this new regime can be bargained with or only crushed.

North Reich

by Robert Conroy

2012

With America focused on Japan, Hitler never declares war and finishes Europe on better terms. Soon Nazi-controlled Canada turns border tension and sabotage into a direct threat to the United States.

Rising Sun

by Robert Conroy

2012

Japan wins at Midway, wrecks the American carrier force, and takes control of the Pacific. As Alaska is invaded and the West Coast comes under attack, the U.S. bets everything on a desperate counterstroke.

1920

by Robert Conroy

2013

Germany wins the First World War, Europe is remade, and an unprepared United States thinks it can stay safely apart. Then invasion comes through Mexico, forcing America into the kind of war it thought it had avoided.

Liberty

by Robert Conroy

2014

When the Revolution collapses, George Washington is executed and the surviving rebels flee west. In a rough settlement called Liberty near future Chicago, they prepare for one last stand against British power.

1882

by Robert Conroy

2015

Custer survives Little Bighorn, rides the victory into the White House, and starts looking overseas for glory. When Americans bound for Cuba are massacred, his reckless ambition pushes the country toward war with Spain.

Germanica

by Robert Conroy

2015

As the Third Reich collapses, Joseph Goebbels builds a fanatical last redoubt in the Alps. Truman and the Allies still have to break this final pocket of resistance before the war in Europe can truly end.

Storm Front

by Robert Conroy

2015

A record blizzard traps a small Michigan town just as its resources start to fail. Officer Mike Stuart has to keep people alive while stranded escaped convicts turn the storm into something even deadlier.

Interregnum

by Robert Conroy

2018

After all-out nuclear war shatters North America, survivors in eastern Ohio try to keep the United States government alive. An interim president and a fragile new capital face both collapse from within and violent enemies nearby.

The Day After Gettysburg

by Robert Conroy

2018

Lee does not retreat after Gettysburg. Instead, he counterattacks, throwing the Union off balance and sending the war into a dangerous new phase that reaches from Pennsylvania battlefields to Lincoln's inner circle.

Where should I start?

If you want the classic entry point: 19011862
If you like Pacific War what-ifs: 19421945Rising Sun
If you want WWII in Europe to go wrong in new ways: Red InfernoHimmler's WarGermanica
If you want war closer to American soil: 1920Castro's BombNorth Reich
If you want Revolutionary and Civil War turns: LibertyThe Day After Gettysburg1882

Author bio

Robert Conroy was born on August 24, 1938, and spent much of his life in Michigan. He served in the U.S. Army, earned an MBA, and later taught business and economic history at Macomb Community College. Before fiction became his second career, he also worked in automotive management, which gave him a practical, unsentimental view of how large systems behave when pressure hits.

Writing came later. After taking early retirement, Conroy came across real German plans for a possible invasion of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. That discovery gave him the spark for 1901, his first novel, and it also handed him the question that would shape the rest of his work: what happens when one decision sends history down a different road?

That was his lane from then on. He knew exactly what kind of stories he wanted to tell.

Conroy wrote alternate history that liked to get its boots dirty. In 1862, Britain enters the American Civil War. In 1942, Japan conquers Hawaii. In 1945, the Pacific war keeps going after Japan should have surrendered. In Himmler's War, Hitler dies in 1944 and the Reich lurches into a new phase under Himmler. Later books like Rising Sun, 1920, Liberty, Castro's Bomb, North Reich, and Germanica kept pulling at similar pressure points.

Readers who enjoy Conroy tend to like the same things in all of them. He was good at building a big military or political premise, then following the chain reaction into battlefields, command rooms, and frightened ordinary lives. He liked cabinet meetings almost as much as firefights. His books usually move through several points of view, and he cared less about flashy gimmicks than about consequences.

He liked asking how a country behaves when it suddenly looks weaker than it thought.

A lot of his novels put the United States in exactly that position. German troops land on Long Island. British power enters the Civil War. Japan dominates the Pacific. Nazi power presses down from Canada. The American Revolution fails. Those are huge setups, but Conroy usually grounds them in stubborn soldiers, officials, civilians, and families trying to hold together while the map shifts around them.

His work found a strong audience in alternate history, and 1942 won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He kept publishing steadily through the 2000s and early 2010s, building a bibliography full of date-titled novels that feel a little like emergency briefings from a nation that took one wrong turn. Even when the scale is enormous, his stories stay readable and direct.

Conroy lived for many years in southeastern Michigan and was married for more than forty years. He and his wife had a daughter, and he later became a grandfather. He died of cancer on December 30, 2014. Books such as Storm Front, The Day After Gettysburg, and Interregnum appeared after his death, which feels fitting for a writer who spent so much time reopening history and asking it to bend.

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