In the Presence of Mine Enemies (novel)

In the Presence of Mine Enemies (ISBN 0-451-45959-8) is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. The story is set in Berlin around the year 2010 in a world in which the United States had remained isolationist and Germany won the  Second World War. Most of the world has been divided between the Axis powers. Nuclear weapons have been used against the USA.

The story is centered on Heinrich Gimpel and a small group of Jews who have managed to survive the Holocaust by keeping their identities secret. One thread of the plot focuses on Alicia Gimpel, who discovers that she belongs to a wrongfully despised minority whom she has been taught all her life to passionately hate.

The events of the book take place against a backdrop similar to the last days of the Soviet Union, with characters recognizably based on Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, among others.

World Politics and Geography
In a brief school scene when the children are studying a world map, a lot about the world of that day is revealed. Germany has a large "Greater German Empire" which encompasses most of central Europe and Ukraine, and it also rules vast amounts of occupied territory, including Russia, France, England, much of Africa]], the former US and Canada. Japan's Empire includes most of the Pacific Islands, [[Australia and New Zealand, Indonesia and China. Italy controls an empire around the Mediterranean (it is hinted that this state is quite weak) with African territories as well. German-aligned independent countries are Finland, Sweden, the Union of South Africa, and most countries in South America.