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Apparently the rather complex bolt was necessary to avoid patent problems. The actual operation is pretty smooth. I think scabbards weren't issued - hence the permanently fixed bayonet.

Crikey! Edit: I've never seen this as a war aim before. This is real Alternate History. rights competition

Wow. What a surprise.

I have them in Bruce McCall's Zany Afternoons, a book I recommend unreservedly. I got mine from a remaindered bookshop in Covent Garden about 1988 - it's still got the 95p price sticker on it.

It's one of Major Howdy Bixby's "Forgotten Warbirds". Page of them

Can't resist this.

coup de grâce. A coup-de-grass is a French lawnmower.

The rim was needed to tip the cartridges at an angle within the magazine - otherwise the bullet noses would be rammed up against the centre fire primers, possibly with disastrous effects. Tube magazines only really worked with rimfire rounds, and no one wanted to go back to them. Lots of small...

Best wishes.

They didn't have a stadium in 1965 - home games were hosted by the Cotton Bowl. There were lots of concerts there, though.

Bad timing: investing in a new weapons system just as it's about be be overtaken by the introduction of smokeless powder. Missing a "lack" here.

I think on Lutzow the forward turrets were Anton and Bruno. The sentence implies one of these was disabled by the hits - I don't think Hipper could have seen Caesar from the bridge. No, it was in 1914 - 22 September.

@alspug : that's a really good piece you linked to. It contains some info pertaining to very early in the story:

German crews didn't live on their ships - they were in port barracks. As a result, greater sub-division was easier, and they had less cooking/cleaning/etc facilities to install. Of course, in protracted voyages this resulted in deterioration of living conditions fairly rapidly, as the men simply...

Here's the cover of my edition. Are Australians going to cheat at cricket in this story? If not, you'll have to move it to the ASB forum.

A recommended book: William Rushton: W. G. Grace’s Last Case (1984), In which the world’s greatest cricketer teams up with Dr John Watson to solve a murder, and defeat the Martian invasion, amongst other things. A significant part of the book deals with a somewhat incident packed tour of the...

By this date, 94 tanks probably makes it one of the better equipped Panzer formations available to Germany.

There was very little about NZ in the last version. Remedied now. Interesting.

I read it many years ago, in he late '70s. Enjoyed it, though it got a bit too clever for me. It's an interesting companion piece to Kingsley Amis' 1976 novel, The Alteration, which has different PODs but a similarish result. And it has airships.

Alas, this disqualifies me from any such award.