world war ii

  1. Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945?

    Prelude: It's Always Darkest Before It Goes Completely Black Japan was finished as a warmaking nation, in spite of its four million men still under arms. But...Japan was not going to quit. Despite the fact that she was militarily finished, Japan's leaders were going to fight right on. To not...
  2. A Blunted Sickle

    7th February 1940 General Gamelin sat at his desk after the meeting he’d had with his staff for the new Dyle plan. It hadn’t gone well – his staff was split, while his deputy Georges was downright scathing. Not particularly about the details of the plan – he’d been quite complimentary about...
  3. Plausibility Check: A Soviet Sealion

    In a situation where the Soviet Union reaches the Channel (by any scenario) would it be possible for them to pull of Sealion in any form?
  4. WW2: USA sends a big army to Burma / China

    I had the idea when I was thinking about my (unfinished yet) "Hitler tries the Mediterranean strategy" TL. What if FDR had decided to send many troops (I'm talking about at least 100,000 men) to Burma, if the Brits had agreed and, later, after the Burma road (from Burma to China) was re-opened...
  5. WI De Gaulle in charge 1940

    I got the idea for this thread reading the diverse threads about the French and how the do in a war... So, WI de Gaulle had been the overall commander of the French army when the nazis invaded? I'm sure that he'd done better than OTL commanders, he seems to have had the right attitude, the...
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