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CASCADING DIVERGENCE: 1943 Purification - A Holocaust on an Unmatched Scale
What if the Holocaust was not a single event—but a global mechanism of silence, designed by three empires?
Here’s What Unfolds in This Haunting and Unrelenting Sequel to CASCADING DIVERGENCE 1942: Chūgoku-sen—and Companion to All Prior Books in the A World Divided by Vision, Not War – Germany controls Europe and the former Soviet Union. Italy dominates much of Africa. Japan reshapes East Asia. The world is at peace— for now.The Year of Purification – With the battlefield silent, the killing begins. Death is not waged in open combat but administered through bureaucracies, freight manifests, and propaganda. Railways become arteries of genocide.Three Empires, One Purpose – In Berlin, Hitler declares the dawn of the “Thousand-Year Reich.” In Rome and Tokyo, Mussolini and Hirohito set in motion their own visions of racial cleansing and imperial permanence. Secrecy is sacred. Perfection is procedural.No Witnesses, No Return – Cities are emptied. Populations vanish. Ash becomes concrete. Entire civilizations are erased not with bullets—but with bricks, smoke, and policy.
Why Readers Are Drawn to This A Realistic Alternate History – Each installment builds a chillingly plausible world grounded in actual ideology, infrastructure, and strategy.Immersive, Unflinching Prose – With a journalist’s precision and a novelist’s depth, this book does not sensationalize—it reveals.Self-Contained Yet Interconnected – While this volume stands on its own, it deepens the consequences of each previous book in the series.
A Closer Look…
CASCADING DIVERGENCE 1943: Purification is not about waging war—it’s about what happens when the victors decide who deserves to exist. The novel spans three volumes, one for each Axis power, as they execute extermination programs in secret.
In Germany, the Holocaust becomes fully mechanized—optimized, decentralized, and rationalized. In Italy’s African empire, genocide is cloaked as development and modernization. In Japan’s East Asia, entire cultures are erased, not merely conquered.
This is the year the world was reordered—not through war, but through silence.
Perfect for readers of alternate history, military strategy, and historical fiction that confronts what might have been if evil had not been defeated—but had been perfected.
Here’s What Unfolds in This Haunting and Unrelenting Sequel to CASCADING DIVERGENCE 1942: Chūgoku-sen—and Companion to All Prior Books in the A World Divided by Vision, Not War – Germany controls Europe and the former Soviet Union. Italy dominates much of Africa. Japan reshapes East Asia. The world is at peace— for now.The Year of Purification – With the battlefield silent, the killing begins. Death is not waged in open combat but administered through bureaucracies, freight manifests, and propaganda. Railways become arteries of genocide.Three Empires, One Purpose – In Berlin, Hitler declares the dawn of the “Thousand-Year Reich.” In Rome and Tokyo, Mussolini and Hirohito set in motion their own visions of racial cleansing and imperial permanence. Secrecy is sacred. Perfection is procedural.No Witnesses, No Return – Cities are emptied. Populations vanish. Ash becomes concrete. Entire civilizations are erased not with bullets—but with bricks, smoke, and policy.
Why Readers Are Drawn to This A Realistic Alternate History – Each installment builds a chillingly plausible world grounded in actual ideology, infrastructure, and strategy.Immersive, Unflinching Prose – With a journalist’s precision and a novelist’s depth, this book does not sensationalize—it reveals.Self-Contained Yet Interconnected – While this volume stands on its own, it deepens the consequences of each previous book in the series.
A Closer Look…
CASCADING DIVERGENCE 1943: Purification is not about waging war—it’s about what happens when the victors decide who deserves to exist. The novel spans three volumes, one for each Axis power, as they execute extermination programs in secret.
In Germany, the Holocaust becomes fully mechanized—optimized, decentralized, and rationalized. In Italy’s African empire, genocide is cloaked as development and modernization. In Japan’s East Asia, entire cultures are erased, not merely conquered.
This is the year the world was reordered—not through war, but through silence.
Perfect for readers of alternate history, military strategy, and historical fiction that confronts what might have been if evil had not been defeated—but had been perfected.
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Published July 16, 2025
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71 books13 followersRonald David "Ronnie" Wood is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Rolling Stones, Faces, and The Jeff Beck Group.
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August 10, 2025
Wow!
Where in earlier books the author went to some length to project reasonable developments diverging from the death of Churchill and peace between the British Empire and Axis powers in this novel he throws all that away. Historically the Germans only adopted the extermination program when their plans to expel those they saw as less than human was frustrated by the inability to defeat the USSR in 1942. In this alternate history Germany won the war in 1941, but for reasons of pure evil decide to adopt extermination protocols anyhow despite the logistic burden that results.
Then even more implausibly first Italy and then Japan decide to adopt the same extermination projects in their own new empire holdings despite the fact that even before the allies invaded Italy they took steps to shield their jewish population from German attacks. Japan, while it had its share of war crimes, and they were many and violent, never adopted systematic murder as a program even when they were suffering setback after setback. Even worse the author has the Japanese enforcing Shinto worship in this alternate despite the fact that historically Buddhist worship was considered fully acceptable as part of Japanese culture. No reason for the massive cultural shifts in Italy, which lived under Mussolini for over two decades before the alternate history began, nor Japan which accepts Buddhist Kami worship for centuries suddenly undergoing such massive cultural shifts in such a short time span. This novel jumped the shark, then skid on as if everything were perfectly reasonable.
Where in earlier books the author went to some length to project reasonable developments diverging from the death of Churchill and peace between the British Empire and Axis powers in this novel he throws all that away. Historically the Germans only adopted the extermination program when their plans to expel those they saw as less than human was frustrated by the inability to defeat the USSR in 1942. In this alternate history Germany won the war in 1941, but for reasons of pure evil decide to adopt extermination protocols anyhow despite the logistic burden that results.
Then even more implausibly first Italy and then Japan decide to adopt the same extermination projects in their own new empire holdings despite the fact that even before the allies invaded Italy they took steps to shield their jewish population from German attacks. Japan, while it had its share of war crimes, and they were many and violent, never adopted systematic murder as a program even when they were suffering setback after setback. Even worse the author has the Japanese enforcing Shinto worship in this alternate despite the fact that historically Buddhist worship was considered fully acceptable as part of Japanese culture. No reason for the massive cultural shifts in Italy, which lived under Mussolini for over two decades before the alternate history began, nor Japan which accepts Buddhist Kami worship for centuries suddenly undergoing such massive cultural shifts in such a short time span. This novel jumped the shark, then skid on as if everything were perfectly reasonable.
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