What the devil? We're did you pull 'our world' and 'parallel history' from? From what I read - the book - it was simply an AH in which the Axis won WW2 and the characters were struggling to survive. The 'Abensden-Universe' was simply the invention of a character within the book, not a parallel...
Ekranoplanes need flat calm to operate. Because of this, ekranoplanes are essentially limited in the same ways hovercraft are - but they can't go on land.
Historically, areas around Kakadu and Tasmania in Australia were considered for the site of Jewish refugees. As far as I know, the setting up of the Kakadu site was delayed by WW2 and made redundant by the setting up of Israel in 1948.
I thought there was an Aztec prophecy about 'a white man coming from heaven' or something like that. Which is why the preisthood and Montezuma accepted him into the city.
It shouldn't have any effect. By observing German doctrine the French should have realised that massed tanks should be used as an offensive weapon, not a defensive one. Which means these tanks will be sitting much closer to the Belgian border, ready for a mass counter-offensive as soon as the...
IIRC Imperial Russia mounted two expeditions early on in the great game to secure bases from which India could be threatned. Both ended in complete annihilation of the Russian forces at the hands of natives. After this the tsar resorted to diplomacy to try and get hold of these bases from which...
The man in the high castle, SS:GB and The Eyre Affair are my favourite AH novels. The Man in the High Castle and SS:GB are more traditional style AH books; the Eyre affair uses AH as a backdrop for the story, a literary detective who 'jumps' into Jane Eyre to kill a madman.
Ultimately it shouldn't make much difference. These divisions will only survive as long as the French let them. The only option that would make sense would be to hold these divisions in reserve for some kind of counter-offensive; and by the stage were such a counter offensive would be needed...
Why would NATO forces encounter problems? Up until the very end British forces were ready to jump off into Kosovo and assumed they would face some resistance. One would imagine the ATO would allocate a lot of sorties to the invading force. The Serbs had no air cover and no hope.
If NATO had...
Two men who aren't on the list and probably should be: Idi Amin and Pol Pot.
It would be Saddam. He combines the ruthlessness and human detatchment of Stalin with the craziness of Pol Pot. So, despite the fact that his regime killed fewer people than Uncle Joe's, he would be it.