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I'm amazed that you bring up Turtledove World War 2 fiction and neither of the series is the one I read! I liked his Darkness series which was basically "What if World War II but the Fantasy Manhattan Project is about breakthroughs in mathematical magic and the Fantasy Australians did it, and instead of fighter jets they have dragons, and instead of tanks they have fucking woolly rhinoceroses with canons and catapults mounted to their sides and their cover art is sick and enticing if you're 14 years old". It was cool how it tells the story from many different perspectives (but still makes it clear that Fantasy Nazis are bad) and doesn't turn it into "Fantasy America carried the entire war". There's an arc that covers the Battle of Stalingrad and it's really harrowing.
Edit: Ok not just if you're 14.
Exhibit A: SICK
Exhibit B: SICK
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Exhibit F: SICK
The soundtrack to listen to while looking at these covers