Against The Day and Through The Night are a pair of young adult AH books set in an alternate 1940s where Britain is under German occupation. I got the first one out of our local library on spec., but it was good enough that I borrowed the second one too. There is also a third book in the series, In The Morning, but I haven't read that.
From an AH point of view, details of the PoD and AH developments since then are sketchy to say the least. The implication from the books is that the Dunkirk evacuation either didn't happen or went horribly wrong, leaving the BEF prisoners of the Germans. It's also entirely possible that the Battle of Britain was lost. All of which led to a sucessful Sealion, with the Nazis landing along the South Coast, tank battles in the Midlands and various other badness until Britain surrendered. All of this happens very much off stage, however. The stories take place in a small village where very little has changed since the occupation ... apart from the fact that everything has.
There's not a lot of action or derring-do, but the books give a good evocation of how life in a small part of Britain under Nazi rule might be, of the oppression and day-to-day helpless irritation of it all. I liked them, and would give both of them a 4 out of 5.
From an AH point of view, details of the PoD and AH developments since then are sketchy to say the least. The implication from the books is that the Dunkirk evacuation either didn't happen or went horribly wrong, leaving the BEF prisoners of the Germans. It's also entirely possible that the Battle of Britain was lost. All of which led to a sucessful Sealion, with the Nazis landing along the South Coast, tank battles in the Midlands and various other badness until Britain surrendered. All of this happens very much off stage, however. The stories take place in a small village where very little has changed since the occupation ... apart from the fact that everything has.
There's not a lot of action or derring-do, but the books give a good evocation of how life in a small part of Britain under Nazi rule might be, of the oppression and day-to-day helpless irritation of it all. I liked them, and would give both of them a 4 out of 5.