Reddit reviews In the Balance: An Alternate History of the Second World War (Worldwar, Volume 1)

Ah my bad, it is called "Outside context".
And the reference to that
>Reference to the Iain M. Banks book Excession. The author coined >the term "Outside Context Problem" to indicate a surprising and >unexpected situation, such as an invasion by massively superior >alien force occuring in the middle of World War 2.

For SciFi bookworms probably more interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Alternate-History-Second-Worldwar/dp/0345388526/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494493466&sr=1-1&keywords=harry+turtledove+world+war

There's a whole series based upon The Road not Taken by the same author. It's called the Worldwar series and starts with In The Balance:

http://www.amazon.com/In-Balance-Alternate-History-Worldwar/dp/0345388526

It's pretty good if you like that kind of scifi or military fiction in general.

Looks like that might be Worldwar by Harry Turtledove. Not sure if it's what the OP was talking about.

Wow, no one has mentioned the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove yet? Aliens invade in the middle of World War II. It's super detailed & there's 6 or 7 fat, juicy books in the series.

Possibly Harry Turtledove's Part 1 in his WorldWar series.

http://www.amazon.com/Balance-Alternate-History-Second-Worldwar/dp/0345388526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323840078&sr=8-1

The World War series is really good, about aliens invading Earth in the middle of WWII. It starts with In The Balance

Another of my favorite Turtledove books is A Different Flesh, which a series of stories about the colonization of the New World where Homo erectus crossed from Asia instead of the ancestors of the Native Americans.

Agent of Byzantium is great, too. A series of stories in an alternate Byzantine Empire where Mohammed converted to Christianity instead of founding Islam.

For (currently) free Kindle books, David Weber's On Basilisk Station is the first book in the space-opera Honor Harrington series. The second book The Honor of the Queen, is one of my favorites in the entire series. Eric Flint's 1632 turned into a massive and awesome alternate-history series. If you'd like to delve into Alaskan-based murder mysteries, give Dana Stabenow's A Cold Day For Murder a try as the first in the some eighteen book Kate Shugak series.

For paid Kindle books, there's Hugh Howey's Wool Omnibus is the beginning of the dystopian Silo series; the followup Shift Omnibus is actually a prequel trilogy that I haven't gotten yet but is very readable. Naomi Novik's first novel in the alt-history Temeraire series, His Majesty's Dragon, is currently $.99.

In print, Elizabeth Moon's military fantasy The Deed of Paksenarrion is available used for a very affordable price and is an epic series. The Cage was my introduction to a fantasy universe written by SM Stirling, Shirley Meier, and Karen Wehrstein. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander is a sort of alternate history/light romance series set in Scotland that I've thoroughly enjoyed. Brent Weeks' assassin-based (excuse me, wetboy) fantasy Night Angel Trilogy was recently released as an omnibus edition. Empire from the Ashes collects Weber's Dahak sci-fi trilogy into an omnibus edition. Weber and John Ringo co-wrote March Upcountry and the other three novels in the sci-fi Prince Roger quadrilogy. If you haven't tried Harry Turtledove's alt-history sci-fi WW2 'Worldwar' series, In the Balance starts off a little slow plot-wise but picks up good speed. EE Knight's sci-fi/futuristic fantasy Vampire Earth starts off with Way of the Wolf. Mercedes Lackey wrote the modern-fantasy Born to Run with Larry Dixon, and the rest of the SERRAted Edge books with various other authors. Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk and slightly dystopian Snow Crash is hilarious and awesome. Maggie Furey's Aurian is the first of a fantasy quadrilogy that I enjoyed many years ago.

If you're at all familiar with the Warhammer 40k universe, the Eisenhorn Omnibus is Dan Abnett's wonderful look into the life of an Imperial Inquisitor. He's also written a popular series about the Tanith First-and-Only Imperial Guard regiment starting with The Founding Omnibus. He also wrote the first book in the Horus Heresy series, Horus Rising (I highly recommend reading the first three novels together as a trilogy and then cherry-picking the rest).

... and if you've read all that already, I'll be impressed.

Edit: Why yes, I do read a lot. Why do you ask?

If you're able to enjoy "what if"/alternate history sci-fi - the WorldWar series by Harry Turtledove (first book here) is basically "how would the earth's societies and governments react if aliens invaded. In 1942." This has some of what you're looking for, in the sense that human society is torn apart and drastically changed, but it's not apocalyptic. It's a four-book series and if you really loved it there's more set in the same universe after that.

what about:In the Balance: An Alternate History of the Second World War (Worldwar, Volume 1) by Harry Turtledove.


http://www.amazon.com/In-Balance-Alternate-History-Worldwar/dp/0345388526

It's a real good read. It's not comedic, no, haha.

Here's the first volume on Amazon.

This is the first book in his 8 book series that explores similar themes, discussed in a few other replies.

https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Alternate-History-Second-Worldwar/dp/0345388526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484408647&sr=8-1&keywords=in+the+balance