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CASCADING DIVERGENCE: 1945 Coalescence - A Federation of Freedom Forms
What if the Axis dictators exploited democracy’s craving for peace to redraw the world map without firing a single shot?
Here’s What Unfolds in This Gripping Sequel to CASCADING DIVERGENCE 1944: A World Quiet on the Surface—Yet Transforming at Its Core. Germany dominates Europe and Eurasia. Italy rules Africa. Japan controls East Asia. Britain clings to its empire. America, under newly elected President Charles Lindbergh, embraces dialogue over confrontation. The planet appears at peace, but every dialogue and handshake masks calculated ambition.Diplomacy as Empire-Building. At Washington’s inaugural ceremonies and the Germania Summit, Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito seize a rare opening. Knowing Lindbergh must prove his “Reason Not War” doctrine, they press for recognition and strategic concessions. Without a shot fired, the Axis powers expand their empires and influence across the globe.Pressure and Upheaval Across Continents. While diplomats sign agreements, empires harden their grip. Italy suppresses uprisings and deepens extermination in Central Africa. Japan completes its cultural erasure and mass killings in China. Britain, weakened and beset by African revolts, edges toward authoritarianism. The United States scales down its military footprint, redirecting industry toward continental development—yet risks strategic blindness as Axis influence reaches the Americas’ doorstep.The Architecture of a New World. 1945 Coalescence is not about battlefield triumphs. It is about the quiet mastery of patience and leverage—how empires expand when their rivals’ political needs become their greatest weapon. Borders shift and the idea of peace itself is reshaped into an instrument of imperial ascendancy.
Why Readers Are Drawn to This SeriesA Realistic Alternate History – Every volume blends realistic geopolitics, technology, and statecraft into a chillingly plausible re-imagining of the mid-20th century.Immersive, Relentless Prose – Written with precision and depth, the narrative reveals—not sensationalizes—the strategies that could have remade the world.Independent Yet Interconnected – This book stands alone while carrying forward the cascading consequences of every prior novel.
A Closer Look…
CASCADE DIVERGENCE 1945: Coalescence unfolds in sweeping arcs across Washington, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, London, and Africa. It captures a year when the absence of war allowed history’s most ambitious empires to redraw the globe through negotiation, economic absorption, and psychological insight—proving that the shape of power can be changed as profoundly by treaties and trade routes as by armies and bombs.
Perfect for readers of alternate history, geopolitical strategy, and historical fiction that explores not only what might have been fought—but what might have been built and bartered in the shadows of peace.
Here’s What Unfolds in This Gripping Sequel to CASCADING DIVERGENCE 1944: A World Quiet on the Surface—Yet Transforming at Its Core. Germany dominates Europe and Eurasia. Italy rules Africa. Japan controls East Asia. Britain clings to its empire. America, under newly elected President Charles Lindbergh, embraces dialogue over confrontation. The planet appears at peace, but every dialogue and handshake masks calculated ambition.Diplomacy as Empire-Building. At Washington’s inaugural ceremonies and the Germania Summit, Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito seize a rare opening. Knowing Lindbergh must prove his “Reason Not War” doctrine, they press for recognition and strategic concessions. Without a shot fired, the Axis powers expand their empires and influence across the globe.Pressure and Upheaval Across Continents. While diplomats sign agreements, empires harden their grip. Italy suppresses uprisings and deepens extermination in Central Africa. Japan completes its cultural erasure and mass killings in China. Britain, weakened and beset by African revolts, edges toward authoritarianism. The United States scales down its military footprint, redirecting industry toward continental development—yet risks strategic blindness as Axis influence reaches the Americas’ doorstep.The Architecture of a New World. 1945 Coalescence is not about battlefield triumphs. It is about the quiet mastery of patience and leverage—how empires expand when their rivals’ political needs become their greatest weapon. Borders shift and the idea of peace itself is reshaped into an instrument of imperial ascendancy.
Why Readers Are Drawn to This SeriesA Realistic Alternate History – Every volume blends realistic geopolitics, technology, and statecraft into a chillingly plausible re-imagining of the mid-20th century.Immersive, Relentless Prose – Written with precision and depth, the narrative reveals—not sensationalizes—the strategies that could have remade the world.Independent Yet Interconnected – This book stands alone while carrying forward the cascading consequences of every prior novel.
A Closer Look…
CASCADE DIVERGENCE 1945: Coalescence unfolds in sweeping arcs across Washington, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, London, and Africa. It captures a year when the absence of war allowed history’s most ambitious empires to redraw the globe through negotiation, economic absorption, and psychological insight—proving that the shape of power can be changed as profoundly by treaties and trade routes as by armies and bombs.
Perfect for readers of alternate history, geopolitical strategy, and historical fiction that explores not only what might have been fought—but what might have been built and bartered in the shadows of peace.
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Published September 30, 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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