James Philip

The Cuban Missile Crisis went wrong, and now the American people are about to start living with the consequences of the catastrophe....

For the first time all three Harry Waters books in one box set. Our affable, driven, conflicted hero's journey through nearly twenty stormy years, where it all went wrong and perhaps, and how redemption came looking for him in an unlikely, lethal guise when actually, he was through with the world.

It is November 1963 - 13 months after the Cuban Missile Crisis went horribly wrong....

It is January 1964 in an alternative timeline in which the Swinging '60s never happened. A little over a year has passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis of late October 1962. Red Dawn, has fomented full-scale insurrection in Washington, DC....

No history of the October War is complete without at least a footnote about that "lost fleet". This, insofar as anybody can know at this remove, is its story....

It is June 1964 in the altered timeline of a world in which the Cuban Missiles Crises went disastrously wrong and the swinging sixties never happened. ‘Ask Not of Your Country’ is the fourth verse of the American story of Armageddon.

It is April 1964 in a World in which the swinging sixties never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are poised to pour down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates like wolves upon the fold.

The Lancaster Force has settled into the long, hard slog of razing Berlin. The storms that batter the Main Force and the seasonal fog that regularly envelopes their bases are enemies as deadly as the Luftwaffe; the time when any man on ops could cling to hope is quickly disappearing....

Seven years have passed since former SAS officer Harry Waters stood trial in Winchester for the murder of his best friend....

In the uneasy half-peace, the United States stirs from its post-Cuban Missiles War slumber. But will it awaken soon enough to overcome its own divisions to confront the new and terrible forces unleashed by Red Dawn's first paroxysm of violence? Find out....

Cricket on the Beach is book one of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62 - Australia. Timeline 10/27/62 is set in a world in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went wrong and the swinging '60s never happened....

Detective Inspector Frankie Ransom prides herself on being third generation Met - her father was head of the old Flying Squad....

La Argentina covers the period of the Argentine invasion of the British South Atlantic Dependencies (The Falkland Islands-Las Islas Malvinas, South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territories) in the spring of 1964....

It is November 1964. There has been a bitterly contested presidential election, the war in the Midwest has become bogged down in the rain and the cold of the coming winter, the peace conference is deadlocked at the old United Nations building in Manhattan....

A little over twenty months have passed since the cataclysm of October 1962. It is Independence Day in Philadelphia, the temporary capital of the United States.

It is April 1964 in a world in which the "swinging '60s" never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are pouring down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers like wolves upon the fold....

Sir Stanley Jackson captained Harrow School, Cambridge University and England in a golden epoch of English cricket. It is no bad thing to place the man and his age in perspective before the telling of his story. Our subject played his cricket in an age lost to us forever, an age wreathed in legend.

But this is not to be a war like those which have gone before it; wars decided by crushing British sea power and eventually, on land by the superiority of the logistics and tactics of relatively small colonial armies in the South Western badlands.

It is January 1965 in a World in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went horribly wrong and the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. In the United States a new President has entered the White House; in Britain the country will shortly be going to the polls for the first time since the October War.

This box set puts together Book 1 and 2 of the series - Interlopers and Pictures of Lily - in a single accessible volume....