Conroy, Robert
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1938-2014) US author of several Alternate History novels beginning with 1901 (1995), which features a German Invasion of Long Island, intimately threatening New York – but Teddy Roosevelt leads the successful resistance. In 1862 (2006), the United Kingdom allies itself with the Confederate States in the American Civil War after the North has foolishly violated British sovereignty at sea. 1945 (2007) and 1942 (2009) both deal with a Japan less easily defeated than in our world; in the first of these, Japan must be invaded before her eventual capitulation; in the second (a Sidewise Award winner), her more thorough destruction of American military might at Pearl Harbor leads to a protracted war, which America does win in the end. In Red Inferno: 1945 (2010), Stalin jumps the gun in Europe, threatening to conquer the entire West. Further novels followed. [JC]
Robert Conroy
born 1938
died 30 December 2014
works
- 1901 (Novato, California: Lyford Books, 1995) [hb/]
- 1862 (New York: Ballantine Books/Presidio Press, 2006) [pb/]
- 1945 (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007) [pb/]
- 1942 (New York: Ballantine Books, 2009) [pb/]
- Red Inferno: 1945 (New York: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010) [pb/Christopher Sergio]
- Castro's Bomb (no place given: Amazon Digital Services, 2011) [ebook: na/]
- Himmler's War (New York: Baen Books, 2011) [hb/Kurt Miller]
- Rising Sun (New York: Baen Books, 2012) [hb/Kurt Miller]
- 1920: America's Great War (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [hb/Kurt Miller]
- Liberty 1784 (New York: Baen Books, 2014) [hb/Kurt Miller]
- 1882: Custer in Chains (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [hb/Kurt Miller]
- Germanicus (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [hb/Kurt Miller]
- Storm Front (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [hb/Kurt Miller]
- The Day after Gettysburg (New York: Baen Books, 2017) with J R Dunn [novel: completed by Dunn after Conroy's death: hb/Kurt Miller]
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