Since Sandwichwarrior mentions his works:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

This is a link to the full Up With the Star timeline as per where it currently is. This is the alternate history timeline I keep mentioning in various Friday LULZ threads. With the point of divergence that Ben Butler becomes Abraham Lincoln's Vice-President in 1864, giving command of the Army of the James to David Hunter, a real soldier, I created an alternate universe where Grant's 1864 campaign produces the capture of Lee by the 41st USCT at the Battle of Hanover Junction and the Confederacy unravels by November of 1864. By the 1980s, starting from an obscure Civil War political general becoming Veep instead Russia's on the verge of an alternate-universe equivalent of the 1991 coup and rules the 1914 boundaries of the Tsarist Empire (sorry Poland and Finland, ya'll don't exist in this world, Russia's a Space-Filling Empire ;P) under a fascist regime about to disintegrate and the Romanov Tsar Alexander IV. China's in political turmoil from the death of the Fascist leader Ma Bufang, the Ottomans control Romanian and most of the Middle East's oil under one state (and thus everybody else is looking for green energy), Botswana and Somalia are the most peaceful parts of Africa.....and Iran has an infamous, lethal revolution in the 1960s that topples the Shah and produces a Tudeh dictatorship, setting in motion the disintegration of fascism just in time for Communism to show up.

Oh, and a WWII with fascist Russia under G.K. Zhukov and Tuchachevsky waging a nuclear war with the Central Powers as big wheel in the Eastern Alliance that sees every belligerent nuked except Fascist Italy, which in the alternate universe is on the brink of an implosion. In addition a USA with two black Presidents and a dynamic Japanese-American President. Not to mention President Nathan Bedford Forrest III, World War II veteran and the man who ends the other-universe version of segregation. Oh, and I might add as well that the most prosperous, least-paranoid, least-militarized continent in the other universe is South America.

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=184722

Comments

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

MASSIVE HISTORYGASM!

Okay, bookmarking now.

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

The Sheldon Cooper of Liberal Arts!

[oportet.livejournal.com]

I know human events don't have too much influence on the make-up of the earth itself, but if you're putting together an alternate universe, why does the Middle East still get to float on top the most valuable natural resource?

Give it to Greenland, or my alternate-universe great uncle, or have it come out of volcanoes.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Geography can't be changed in alternate history. It's the hardest sci-fi there is.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

Sure it can! Haven't you ever read The Lord of the Rings? :p

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Wot'e said.

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

Jack Churchill is the most badass soldier I have ever heard of... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

So, finally, I can unravel all of your neuroses...

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

OMG this is in-depth i'm lost in this man's mind....