In addition to this, most of the continents are in the southern hemisphere of this planet, east and west are flipped but north and south are not. This allows the reader to take a slightly more objective view of the conflict. For example, the nation of Kuusamo is the equivalent of the United States, but is inhabited by Finnish-speaking East Asians. One of the more interesting twists is that the fantasy counterpart cultures do not match up with the countries they're representing: Turtledove randomly mixed ethnicities and used languages and place names from more obscure countries. Fantastic equivalents for real weapons and technologies abound: dragons for aircraft, leviathans for submarines, behemoths for tanks.
The twist is that this is not the World War II we know, but the same sequence of events transposed onto a generic Low Fantasy world which has used Functional Magic to achieve industrialization. 'Darkness is a series of six Doorstopper books by Harry Turtledove which covers the story of World War II from a global perspective, using Loads And Loads Of Viewpoint Characters from all the major participant nations ( and Finland).
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