Wasn't Dunkirk only one of several successful evacuations (albeit the largest)? The BEF wouldn't have been completely taken, although the blow would be a heavy one.
On the other hand, I've been able to sell some female friends on For All Mankind, who are usually adamantly non-scifi but have gotten hooked in by the well written NASA staff, family and friends drama, with the smaller accompanying packaging of alt-history and hard scifi, and I think this will...
I mean, it's at lest moving, realistic and well-written family drama - and demonstrates how badly Ed has been affected all these years by Shane's death, and his subsequent paranoid fears for Kelly. I think he was dealing with a lot of repressed guilt and PTSD in his role at NASA, that was...
Regarding the Baldwin family - looking at the timeline involved and her apparent age of 17 or 18 in 1983, it seems as if Kelly must have been unusually old for an adopted child when Ed and Karen took her in; Shane died in 1973 - even if they adopted Kelly as early as '74 or '75 she must have...
A number of high-ranking Heer commanders had deep misgivings about Citadel; several at least wanted, after Third Kharkov, to switch to strategic defence for the rest of 1943 (both elastic and static depending on the differing frontal areas and circumstances) with counter-offensives only as...
I've seen it asserted this was in part due to Ney - who was not averse to a bit of aggressive foraging himself - being truly offended and scandalized by the sheer extent and shameless avarice of Massena's looting and pillaging in Portugal and western Spain (case in point, his acidic reply that...
With this thread's POD and sufficient flow-on changes, including a necessarily more defensive stance on the Western Front, the Germans might see fit to persuade the Austro-Hungarians not to engage in their disastrous offensive at the Piave River in June 1918 and stand on the defense themselves...
Honestly, Hitler stroking out in mid January 1944 (say, the 15th) rather than May 1st probably works out better and buys Germany more time. A semi-competent Heer junta quickly installed, and managing to get Himmler and his closest allies up against a firing squad post asap ( I doubt it would be...
Some notable fantasists in the SK certainly wanted the entirety of Poland, and to retain Alsace-Lorraine and the other western territories absorbed into the Reich, but IIRC a larger number of slightly less deluded plotters, including von Stauffenberg "just" wanted a pullback to the 1914...
The OP mentions using the Smolensk assassination attempt on 13th March 1943 as the POD (unsure whether it's the shooting or the aircraft bombing, specifically). So Germany's recovered reasonably well from Stalingrad, at least for now, and is winning the final stages of Third Kharkov / the Donets...
I could maybe squint hard enough to see the Soviets accepting a wearied, mistrustful armistice based on a return to their 1939 borders (conceding the loss of the Baltic states, the formerly Polish regions of western Belarus and Ukraine, and the Finnish and Romanian territories annexed in 1940)...
If a less expansion-minded German alt-Nazi regime had in September 1939 limited its war aims in an invasion of Poland to seizure of the West Prussian "corridor" and Danzig (and after extorting the Memel strip off Lithuania as in OTL) only, and halted offensive operations once they had attained...
I was 5 at the time, living with my parents on a farm about 140km north of Brisbane - I strongly suspect the Greater Brisbane area would have eaten at least two Soviet nukes in the "several hundred KT" range, one on the port / fuel refineries and the other at RAAF Base Amberley, probably...
You might see the German monarchy (including the constituent kingdoms like Bavaria) surviving in an August armistice scenario, butterflying the Weimar Republic (although not a postwar Social Democrat - led government, most likely).