Rising Sun Victorious (2007, Paperback, Reprint)

A fanciful 'What if...' look at ways Japan could have won WWII by altering a key decision or event, and exploring the ramifications of those alternative choices.
While compiled by Peter G. Tsouras, you will quickly note that each chapter is authored by a different person, each with his own timeline of events. For that reason, this book is not meant to be read as a single connected story of events, but rather, the reader is told to imagine history has occured as recorded until the key alternative occurs, and to then follow the new historical timeline from that point.
The book is arranged so that the alternative histories occur in a roughly date-ordered sequence, from earliest variation at the beginning of the book, to later, more desperate alternatives toward the end.
While the title of the book is 'Rising Sun Victorious', the alternative outcomes of each chapter tend to gravitate to, at best, a negotiated peace, to prolonging the inevitable, which each author attributes to Japan's inequality to the United Stated in industrial capacity (during WWII). The outstanding exception to this is the first chapter, which has Japan taking her war of conquest in a totally different, and very plausible direction.
While the logic of each chapter are fully explained and detailed, the disconnect of using several sub-authors, each with their own point of view and timeline, and generally similar outcomes makes this offering in Mr. Tsouras' alternative histories offerings a somewhat weaker flight of fancy into history.
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