High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Settling Accounts tetralogy is an alternate history setting of World War II by Harry Turtledove in North America, presupposing that the Confederate States of America won the U.S. Civil War. It is part of the Southern Victory Series, following How Few Remain (set in the early 1880s) and trilogies Great War (World War I) and American Empire (interwar period). It takes the Southern Victory Series world from 1941 to 1944.