I am loving this story (congratulations on getting runner-up on this year's Turtledove!) I wanted to let you know that
The Epilogue to Book 1 is missing its threadmark.
Do you plan to continue 'How Marcus Tullius Cicero Saved the Republic'? That is one of my favorite stories on this site, and it'd be a shame to let it die.
Also, would you be willing to add threadmarks to make the story easier to navigate? I'm planning to re-read it (I think this will be the...
...Well, the U.S. government has funded similar boondoggles and pet projects like that before. A certain bridge comes to mind.
A few possibilities:
The canal is a private project -- perhaps by early American colonists, perhaps in a collaboration with native Iroquois confederation. The...
Thanks for all the replies! It seems the consensus among those who know better than I is pretty clear -- Barbarossa just didn't have the resources, particularly the navy, that he would have needed to make a siege successful.
So how about an alternative prompt? Specifically, where and how...
I've seen a lot of timelines and what-ifs describing a Byzantine resurgence at various points in their history. But what if the Byzantine Empire collapsed even earlier than in the OTL? Is it possible that a stronger and more stable alt-"Latin Empire" would have taken its place?
Unnecessary...
Something to consider -- especially given that this seems to be a largely America-centric TL -- is that these events would play a *huge* role in determining British domestic policy related to immigration. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the (Muslim) assassination of Prince Charles...
Homer smacks his forehead and thinks 'D'oh!'
But seriously -- just thinking out loud here -- does the danger of exposed flanks in this context concern troop positions or supply lines? Could be both, but I suspect the issue is primarily the latter. But why must the supply lines be land- and...
I feel like I may be hijacking the thread here, but the above comment just begs the question:
WI Hitler goes for *everything but* the Baltics?
... or rather, what if Operation Barbarossa focused the entire Nazi offensive on the southern half of the Soviet border? Ignore the Baltics and...
I really wish people would retire the old excuse that the US's entry into WWI was due to Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. That may have been the catalyst for public outrage, which made it politically viable to enter the war, but the reality was that the American government's...
Excellent; thanks for the content. I'm pretty new to AH, but it wouldn't surprise me if this were one of the most discussed WI scenarios on the forum.
But, as I said, I'm new here, so I wonder if anyone knows what the political ramifications might be if the US declared war due to Japan seizing...
I've been wondering about this for a while, but never really knew the right way to go about asking it.
Why did the Allied military command decide on an amphibious invasion of Europe through the northern French beachhead?
Now, on the one hand I can understand the benefits of having such a...
If the Russians wouldn't sell to America, would there be any restriction on the Americans selling it to Britain? If I recall correctly the purchase was originally called "Seward's Folly" after Lincoln's Secretary of State; what if after the assassination, a Republican Congress pressured Andrew...