Interesting how the UK and USA did not form the “special relationship” after WW2 due to the British Empire fighting more independently and successfully during and after the war.
I have been loving these Cold War posts. Garrison, could you summarize your thought process on how the USSR was perceived as less of a worldwide bogeyman post-war? How much of that comes from the British and their Empire successfully defending themselves in North Africa and South Asia? (as...
It’s certainly possible, though FDR’s coattails would be immense. You make good points though about 1944 competent machine man Truman vs 1948 atomic war-winner Truman.
I am dubious about Dewey’s ability to defeat Truman even with Wallace’s missteps. The swing required is not as huge as the OTL Electoral College results suggest, but is still big. If anything, his win could easily be undermined by razor thin EC victories in NY etc while significantly losing in...
Seconded!
This huge post had me looking up OTL info on many of the characters. A very cosmopolitan bunch. And I finally read up on the Czechoslovak Legion revolt in Siberia I had heard of but never got around to learning. Definitely a case of “Real History that looks ASB.” I’m glad to read that...
While I surely appreciate that there will be many more posts to this story, the utopian in me was hoping that the Nazi war effort would collapse in the West so that the death camps could be liberated before New Years and the US/UK could drive into Warsaw and Budapest. There’d be a lot fewer...
Due to the British conducting a stunning war effort TTL that appears to bring WW2 to a close a full year earlier than OTL, a lot fewer people will die* especially Jews in Europe and South / Southeast Asians and the exploits of the British Army will be revered by the public for generations...
One of the main things I have learned about from Munich Shuffle is the “universal carrier” and I love them. They’re such an interesting intermediate step in the evolution of other military vehicles. And I feel that in any zombie fiction set in the early 1940s, they would be extremely effective…
I have really enjoyed your Pacific Theater stuff because so much of it is your own creativity rather than just pushing OTL events up by a year. Japan has really experienced a different WW2, one in which they clearly bit off more than they can chew, from an earlier point. Your writing about...
If I may backpedal a bit to the Italy update, I have a thought. Italy could try to spin out a narrative post-war that they were basically victims of Nazi aggression the whole time, with Mussolini perhaps retconned as bullied by Hitler initially, and only attacking the British and USSR out of...
TheReformer has kinda implied that in France there is no energy left for revolution. The main nationwide “movement” may be an implacable withdrawal of the vast majority of the public from civic life. Reduced political participation, reduced voter turnout, reduced attendance at town halls, a...
All of the above brilliant speculation really shows how TheReformer has struck a gold mine with his use of a totally-last-minute POD for German victory in The Great War.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/chiang-kai-shek-goes-to-germany-an-axis-china-timeline.141029/
I found it buried in my subscribed timelines list.