Recent content by wrybread

Yeah, I don't know if Turtledove just really buys in to the "Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys" cliche or what but he never passes up a chance to humiliate the French. And if he can destroy the Eiffel Tower into the bargain, so much the better. Hell, when there were reports of terrorists...

Russian director Alexander Sukarov's dictator trilogy: Man of Steel: The last days of Reds Stalin and Molotov as they are surrounded by Tsarist forces in Volgagrad. Freedom: In 1942, shortly before the Battle of Pittsburgh, Jake Featherstone entertains the Freedom Party's Inner Circle...

Re. The French-Austrian alliance in Mexico: I was actually the one who posted it to TVTropes last year after reading How Few Remain. My understanding of the situation comes from a popular history book I have which summarizes Emperor Maximillian's brief reign. It probably simplifies a lot of...

World War II would be determined by two of them sneaking into Germany to drop Hitler's ultimate weapon back into the volcano in which it was created. Then they'd return home to find that Mussolini had taken over their country and they'd have to fight a war of liberation.

Actually it needs a bit more than that; I believe the Mexican President, after consultation with his general staff, concluded that the proposed alliance with Germany wouldn't be feasible and/or desirable and ended up turning it down. It was more the public outrage that it sparked in the US that...

There seems to be this perception that a twentieth century TL needs to have some sort of WWII, and that this WWII needs a Hitler-level Big Bad. Stalin/Russia fills the bill. Since WWII was probably the biggest event of the century, it's understandable to want to have an analogue to it, but it...

Wait'll you meet French general Clarence Poitier, who comes from Alsace-Lorraine and therefore speaks with an accent that someone mistakes for German in every scene he's in.

@Kelenas: My family's British and you're right about the impact that the SGW had on Britain's collective pysche. The first war was traumatic, but in the lead-up to the SGW Britain-along with France-had managed to convince themselves that that was just a fluke and the SGW would see the return...

About this, I always figured that either Japan just withdrew from the former German colonies when they withdrew from the Great War, or else Germany in 1917 was just too war-weary to bother and had enough on its' plate with all of the new territories it had acquired in Europe. Also, IIRC after...

Hmm, I'd say there'd be two possibilities for him. Either he goes on to be one of the last diehard Canadian rebels before the country is accepted more or less peacefully into the USA-maybe he assassinates an early governor of Manitoba or otherwise disrupts the statehood process-or he's taken in...

Heh, I had actually kicked around the idea of writing a Timeline for the second half of the 20th. century for TL-191 where France & Britain, left in much the same state as postwar Japan in the OTL-defeated, demilitarized, and traumatized-become the major manufacturers/creators of video games &...

*looks* Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

There might be another thread for this, but has anyone ever tried to do a TL that continued TL-191 up to the present day? I think it would be really interesting to speculate on where this world goes and how it develops analogously to the OTL.

That one makes a lot of sense, as with the Spanish North America example I suggested above it would leave Canada much smaller and without a Pacific coast. If that had happened in the 1860s it would have provided much more of an impetus for Canadian Confederation, so the remaining provinces...

I agree with Grimm Reaper. It would make a good soft "What-If" story, but I can't see that quite working. A land corridor through to Alaska would in itself require a full-blown invasion force of at least hundreds of thousands, and more to pacify the nearby population centres of Vancouver &...