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I finally got M. G. L. Baillie's book. I found out why I couldn't get it in the Bay Area and Seattle libraries. It has an angel on the cover, so the techies don't even look at it because it looks like some kind of Christian book, but the Christians don't buy it because it's about...

America promises not to let the Russians invade Germany if Germany goes democratic. The German army overthrows the Nazis and holds elections. They cut a deal with the Russians. For every German soldier the Russians release the new democratic German government will give them a high ranking Nazi...

Various alternate history stories, some reprinted. Copyright date is 2003. One new story is about a girl whose family is being relocated to a concentration camp in Oklahoma from the Confederacy after the war, and who is rescued by some Quakers from the underground railroad. Another is about an...

The Democrats win the presidential election, but not the Congressional elections, in 1864. They decide to go back on their promise to continue the war against the Confederacy to the fury of the nation. I assume that the war ends where the army stands, because the Union army is going to do...

At least two alternate histories in two timelines. One family has the genetic ability to walk between the timelines. The POV character was found next to her murdered mother and adopted on our timeline. She is given the locket that let's her move between the lines when her adoptive mother is...

I have Pat Choate's "Hot Property, The Stealing Of Ideas In The Age Of Globalization". On page 37 it says that during the civil war the Confederate Patent Office granted 266 patents, and the Federal Patent Office granted 16,000. No citation or other source.

The POD is in Odessa in 1846. A grain ship is in harbor, newly loaded. It's dark, and a squall line is moving in. The crew is small because there is a fight on the docks. In the confusion the lines have been untied to move the ship to another place on the wharfs and have not been resecured. A...

A new party arises in the US in 1856 promoting a new Union. 1. A state can put on any tariff they want, or take it off, or a quota, or ban. You have to let stuff pass through, so New Orleans and New York can't collect tariffs on anything going to Ohio, so they don't collude against the...

If there was no Yalta, the borders would have frozen where the armies met. In Europe that would have meant some changes. Russia might have controlled Yugoslavia, Greece, and Albania if not for the Yalta agreement structure. Ditto for Austria. I don't know about Norway. They might have...

What if Serbia just folded in 1914? They agree to all the Austrian demands, no war but plenty of trouble afterwards.

http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/download_pdf.php?id=144 A paper on settler mortality of European colonies and how it affected local institutions.

OTL in 1911 and 1912. Italy attacks Turkey and grabs Libya. Balkans (Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Greece) attack Turkey. Armistice in December after the Turks are evicted from Thrace, except for Adrianople and Constantinople. (Edirne and Istanbul) Austria has mobilized 900,000 troops to...

This movie is set in a very close version of our history where the British switched to euros instead of pounds. It's a sweet story about a kid that finds a suitcase full of money and has visions of saints. Funny, too.

The French and Indian War has just ended. During the war a lost soldier finds one of those huge chunks of native copper in Michigan. He comes back after the war with a brother in law, next year he brings two more inlaws, three cousins, and a book about copper mining he ordered from England, two...

Got the paperback Grantville Gazette yesterday. Ok, but when people are figuring out how the sunspot Maunder Minimum of the 1600's affects radio reception...it makes ME look normal.

If the British had colonized Tasmania instead of Australia their agriculture would have worked better. The British were used to rainy weather. So were the British sheep. The Tasmanian mineral potential would have been tapped earlier, too. The British would have mined coal, lead/zinc/silver...

POD is a very well publicised German atrocity. I was thinking of the cruiser raids that Germany launched on Britain. One of these is filmed when it's shells hit a hospital or a school. The newsreel footage has 20 minutes of people running in the streets, some buildings exploding, and the camera...

I assume that the US is run by a technophile group. Hamilton, Burr, and Paine, instead of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. We go to steam powered trains instead of canals. The earlier utilisation of steam engines would mean adapting the low pressure and large volume designs. This means a big...

This is the guy who did 'Iron Sunrise' and 'Singularity Sky'. It starts out fairly stupid SPOILER ALERT with a venture capital magazine reporter/researcher telling her boss that some company she was studying was laundering money. Her boss has her fired instantly...

I noticed in other histories of wars (specifically in the German army in WWII) that forming new units is not a good idea compared to sending new recruits into old units. Robert posted this: ********************************************************** Well, training did not take as long as you...