In the vein of "pure" alternate history (i.e. one fact is changed w/o invoking time travel) you have to go with Turtledove and the implications of the atlernate civil war bit. Another good one is SM Stirling's Draka series - a bad guy that makes the Nazis look like choir boys! And the bad guys win . . .
If you expand this to include time travel alternate history . . . I like Eric Flint's 1632-1633 . . . the Belisarius series . . . SM Stirling's Nantucketer series . . . all should not be missed.
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