I have enjoyed a lot of Turtledove's books; however, like many authors he has written one series based on a Confederate victory in the US Civil War which assumes a British intervention in favour of the Confederacy.
To me this is a quite unbelievable scenario; although the Prime Minister, Palmerston, favoured the Confederacy, the likelihood of Britain going to war in favour of a slave-owning nation, thirty years after slavery was abolished in the British Empire has never seemed great.
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