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The intersecting, and conflicting, interests of the triad of revisionist powers, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, dominated the Danubian-Balkan region following the dissolution of Versailles Yugoslavia. Of the three there was a definite unity of purpose exercised between Rome and Budapest...

Yes, wounded, 'gravely' IIRC. I was going to knock him off but felt it was gratuitous and unnecessary.

The essence of the Manstein Plan was a fast moving thrust severing the lines of communication of the Anglo-French in order to annihilate their armies in the field. The decisive arms in this offensive conception were the panzer divisions, their attendant motorised infantry and the tactical...

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To get the Line extending from Switzerland to the sea we're implicitly assuming pod's that (ai) include a preference of investing in the ML over all/most other civil/military projects for a period of many years or (aii) a lesser impact from the Depression and issues around the devaluation of the...

Well, actually I was just being nice. I hope you don't play darts... :D

Thats perceptive. The Petain-Laval bloc will be looking to bring Reynaud's government down, who has failed to build a solid cabinet. Things are going to get interesting at Paris

Ahh, the French aren't dead yet... next installment is up.

At Sedan Flavigny’s XXI Corps, consisting of the 3rd DCR, 3rd Mot Inf Act and the 43rd Inf Act had dislocated Guderian’ westward turning movement and separated strong elements of both tank and infantry of 1 and 2 Pz from the German bridgehead. The only remaining division of Grandsard’s X Corps...

The Anglo-Franco-Turkish Pact of Mutual Assistance is signed Oct 1939 and naval talks are entered into Dec 1939. Also in Oct/Nov came the change of position from Molotov where Russia returned Bulgarian revisionism to it's political agenda in the Balkans and pressed, as the Anglo-French were...

Next installment is up... Cromm Crúaich: Yes, Bulgaria has issues with Greece over Macedonia. Circumstances at the time had Bulgaria rapproching with Yugoslavia and the Italian invasion forced the Bulgarian hand. Greece took a fairly good slice, but Bulgaria only a little. No doubt more...

At the end of the fourth day of fighting along the Dyle/Meuse the honours had been more or less shared between the two sides. The Germans had attacked along the length of the line from Louvain to Sedan and the Anglo-French had held them. Gort’s BEF had held Louvain to Wavre, Blanchard’s First...

OK, can't remember if I made this explicit. Albania is taken over directly, as OTL. Slovenia and Croatia are semi-autonomous with favoured regimes running the two sub-states but at the sufference of Rome. Serbia is occupied and administered jointly with Hungary.

Thanks... :o

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Soon after the German attack on France an exclusive and high-level conference took place at the remote hotel on Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso d’Italia. Attending were Guarnieri, of late the Minister for Exchange and Currency and now Mussolini’s personal advisor on economic and fiscal matters...

Well I was going to go old school Diplomacy and have Britain hot pink.. :D The map is current to May 10 -14 and ITTL there has been no substantial breakthrough along the Meuse, nor any action along the Maginot. The main real estate shifted has been in Belgium up to the Dyle.

I'm following the Peace of Moscow for that, so yeah. Russia took a little slice of the north coast but not the whole thing afaik.

Ok... I've put up a clunky map. It tries to show the broad groupings: Germany, Soviet Russia, Britain, France, Italy and the Neutrals. Boundary changes such as partitioned Yugoslavia, Norway, Finland are made... but d'oh forgot Poland... never mind, will have it updated next time. Note also...

Hopefully we can see a map...