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  1. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    I really am enjoying it, which is saying a lot, since normally I am quite uninterested in American history. It's also quite informative, but more importantly, it's easily digestible even for a person ignorant of the American Civil War (like me). As for novelization, definitely go for it. The...

  2. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    I really enjoy your prose, which is not something I can say for the vast majority of stories (and timelines) written on this site. Your characters feel lifelike and real, their interactions and thoughts believable.

  3. Could Russia have refused to protect Serbia from a A-H invasion?

    Actually, he stepped down in favor of his son because he had temporarily dissolved the government of Nikola Pasic...

  4. Could Russia have refused to protect Serbia from a A-H invasion?

    I am not sure what you are implying. How exactly was he a puppet for the Army? King Peter, having completed college and post-college education in France, was highly liberal, he translated Mill's "On liberty" in Serbian, was an ardent supporter of Constitution and Parliamantary Monarchy.

  5. Could Russia have refused to protect Serbia from a A-H invasion?

    True enough. If I wanted to be wordy, and absolutely precise, Karadjordjevic dynasty took the throne via the vote of the National Assembly after the wildly unpopular and autocratic previous ruler was murdered in a military coup. Better?

  6. Could Russia have refused to protect Serbia from a A-H invasion?

    You are underestimating how bad/weak Russia looked internationally after the war with Japan. Tzar could have left Serbia hanging, but at a terrible cost to Russia's soft power and prestige internationally, as well as a significant blow domestically. Remember, Serbia was publicly in Russia's...

  7. Could Russia have refused to protect Serbia from a A-H invasion?

    Oh wow. Oh wow. Imagine laying the whole blame of a global conflict squarely on the shoulders of a small country, basically a client-state. There is some fault with the Serbian Government. After all, it allowed Black Hand to continue to exist, even when it went rogue. Also, after the...

  8. Of Satraps and Kings

    I remember the first diadochi timeline. :D I may have confused one other timeline with yours, as I am reasonably certain that I have read three similar timelines with a similar idea succesively, and since I associate your username with Alexander timelines, I may have put them all in the same...

  9. Of Satraps and Kings

    Ouch. That's a bummer. I have to say, this may be a third version of this tl that I am reading, and I am hoping it's the final one. Love the premise and the timeframe, but I think it's high time to see it fully done and completed, and not started again. I love it so far.

  10. Hannibal's Wake

    Very interesting, I am always intrigued by the timelines where at least some part of African civilizations do better. Especially when it's in the classical age. :)

  11. The Raptor of Spain

    I hope that you are alright now. Of course there is interest! It's (for me) the absolutely best medieval timeline I have ever seen. Perhaps even best ever.

  12. Serbia: The Sardinia of the Balkans?

    That is the action (war crime) of rogue chetnik groups during Second World War in 1943, not First Yugoslavia's government of which we were speaking... Also, do you really want to open that can of worms? Atrocities committed against Serbs (by Bosnians, amongst others) during the WW II are...

  13. Serbia: The Sardinia of the Balkans?

    I am sorry, but I don't consider Djilas an unbiased source, him being a communist leader in Second Yugoslavia who had vested interest in defaming the First Yugoslavia, as well as being revolutionary during the 30s against the democratic government elected during the first Yugoslavia...

  14. Serbia: The Sardinia of the Balkans?

    What are you talking about? For starters, Plav and Gusinje are in southern Montenegro, and 1912 is before unification. If there was a land reform during the 1919, this is the first time I am hearing about it. The settling of Serb veterans? A blanket statement if I ever saw one. As for...

  15. Serbia: The Sardinia of the Balkans?

    For the original poster, the case of Yugoslavia IOTL is what happens when there is an unsuccessful unification. Serbia tried, and failed, in being Piedmont or Prussia. Mookie, you don't get to do that. You don't get to use atrocities that happened during the 90's and retroactively apply them...

  16. Bosnia gains independence in 1830's

    Honestly, this is the first time I have heard anything about it.

  17. Children of the Sun

    This timeline is awesome. With all due respect to "9FH" (I am well aware that he helped you), this is still the best story/thread on Mesoamerica that I have ever seen, his included, and there are at least two large reasons for it: a) Your PoD concerns a period and characters that we at the...

  18. Serbian Principality wins the Battle of Kosovo

    Well, you could always have Murat, Bayazid and Yakub all losing their lives in the battle (not unlikely in the case of Serbian total victory). This would likely cause a civil war, or at the very least, a significant slowing down of the Ottomans (the death of the Sultan and his likeliest and...

  19. The Balkans redraw by ethnic groups after ww1

    There's a big problem with that, if you are talking pre 1990, and was one of the reason for Yugoslav wars, and even more so if you are talking just after WW1. Bosnia becomes a tiny state, as whole of Republika Srpska is Serbian, and large parts of Hercegovina are Croatian and Serbian (more...

  20. Heirs of the Achaemenids

    Actually, the greatest strength of the Macedonians weren't the phalanxes, which almost always fulfilled the role of the "anvil", but rather the combination of Macedonian cavalry and the Shield-bearers (later Silver-shields) which constituted the "hammer". Other than that, I am completely...
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