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Putting the car on a train to Western Australia in a couple of weeks. We will spend a few weeks meandering back to Melbourne along the Southern Ocean and across the Nullarbor.

Thank you very much I really enjoyed it. Your attention to plausible detail is as usual outstanding.

Just a note to say I appreciate this thread very much and the amount of work going into it. Likewise for the attempt to redeem the sadly feckless Liberals.

Two points should be made; firstly it was not implied that the oil was accessible at the time but it would be at sometime in the fairly near future. This would have transformed the Italian economy of the 40's and50's. Secondly oil was not going to be discovered or exploited while a war was going...

Italy's major mistake was not invading Greece though that was a disaster but invading rather unsuccessfully France. Italy sacrificed a significant part of it's merchant fleet in the silly scrabble to attack a defeated France and gained a pocket of land that was not worth the price. Further the...

Great read I am thoroughly enjoying this excellent timeline, though it also frustrating to realise how relatively "easy" it would have been for the British Empire to have been better prepared. However I will throw in another butterfly; the effect on the Army of the Carriers successes. The...