Resistance: Fall of Man does not take place during what we recognize as World War 2, but instead it is set in an alternate history where a mysterious alien species invades Earth and threatens to ...

An alternative history is a sub-genre of fiction ... this novel takes place in a United States that lost World War II, and is divided between Germany in the East and Japan in the West.

Johnson briefly introduced the audience to alternative history by discussing novels in the genre from both a U.S. and Soviet context, including “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis and “The Plot ...