As far as I can see (just off the top of my head), the problem is twofold.
a. Stalin just doesn't trust the Western powers. As far as he is concerned (with some justification) their attitude is that Russia should keep clear unless asked to intervene upon which most of the fighting will be done...
Let me recommend De Camp's fantasy writings. Apart from his collaborations with Fletcher Pratt, there's things like THE FALLIBLE FIEND (a creature from another dimension is bound in servitude to humans) and best (in my opinion)THE GOBLIN TOWER and its rather inferior sequels. Jorian, a...
This has got me stumped as well. The earliest I can think of is the musical BRIGADOON (1954) about the 18th century village which appears in real time only once every hundred years. Whether this counts, I'm not sure. There's probably folk tales on the same theme. And now I come to think of it...
Filo- if you want a bad writer, try digging up the works of Amanda McKittrick Ros. She's the one that a group of critics used to read aloud to one another with the jackpot going to the one who could read the most paragraphs before pissing themselves with laughter.
The good things about...
Hitler would only have to point out that the British are fighting a limited war in Asia, that he has made peace offers to them, that they're relying on the Americans to save their Empire while expending most of their efforts in Europe, and ask whether it's not obvious that the British are...
This has been done many times before. What would have happened is that Roosevelt would have ditched Britain (the alternative being impeachment or a coup) and Hitler would have become an American hero.
Probably a stabler government. On the other hand, it's always difficult to say how someone will react to power. History is full of people who died young and so are ascribed all sorts of virtues- look at the elder brothers of Henry VIII and Charles I. Still, Titus, Vespasian's son, was very fond...
I thought it passable thriller but rotten AH. This is better than Harris's other books, which are simply rotten. Though admittedly I haven't read IMPERIUM.
I would have thought that the consensus among historians would be that any delay was of little importance. Leaving aside the question of whether an earlier start was practical, bearing in mind such factors as weather and transport, the real delays appear to have taken place during the campaign...
How anyone could find any merit in the last three of the 1632 series escapes me. GALILEO at least passed the time, you couldn't even say that for RAM, and I remember thinking that CANNON LAW was a slight improvement but can't recall any more about the book than that. A damning verdict on any...