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I don't know ... I'm a huge jazz fan and there was a time in the late 40s and early 50s when "serious" jazz hadn't become such a small cultural stream separate from the mainstream dominated by the rise of rock 'n' roll. I wonder what might have happened if the latter had been delayed a little...

I'd be interested in alternatives to the standard Lost Generation -> Beats -> Hippies paralleled by something that at least slows down the Rockabilly -> Rock movement. I may write more about that idea here when I get some time.

CHAPTER SIX The Manchester Guardian December 30, 1951 BRITAIN ACCEPTS OBSERVER STATUS AT KASHMIR TALKS Prime Minister Atlee today announced that he has accepted the terms offered by Russian foreign minister Molotov for the British government to have observer status only at the upcoming...

Wow -- I did it! I finally got to the end of the thread. I never imagined when I started reading days and days ago that I'd get to the end and the Nazis would still be standing. What an enjoyable read. A couple of things from a total newbie to the board: As much as I LOVE the image of...

CHAPTER FIVE (continued ...) Gerry finally rolled over and reached up to the shelf near his head to get his watch. He peered at it and saw the time: he just had time to get a shower, maybe a cup of coffee at the mess hall and then be at the flight line by 9:15. On the way “home” last night...

Very good analysis. An independent Kurdistan would have had to have been part of a much, much more aggressive and ambitious intervention in the whole region which, after things started to go down the tubes in Iraq, was off the table, if it ever could have been on it.

Yes, I would fully expect that. I have slightly more confidence Iraq may persist in its current form than I did back in '04-'08, but I still think it's possible it won't. Kurdish secession in Iran and Syria doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. As for the Turks ... I'll hold my tongue. In...

At the risk of (correctly) being labelled a hawkish maniac, this idea had a lot of appeal to me at the time and, especially during the darkest years of US involvement in Iraq before the "Sunni Awakening." Yes, midwifing the creation of an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq would have caused...

CHAPTER FIVE September15, 1951 The Las Vegas Sun ENTERTAINMENT NOTES – Glenn Miller to Start Long Run at Flamingo Glenn Miller and his orchestra will start an indefinite performance run at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino next week. Hotel management has said that plans include a rotating...

CHAPTER FOUR (continued ...) They had dropped Rand off at the building that Gerry was told was the only “headquarters” Longbow had – the Quonset hut dormitory shared by the team members he’d already met. She had taken back the folder she’d given him in the briefing room and said she’d keep...

CHAPTER FOUR Shanghai Eastern Light September 15, 1951 NEW RULES FOR BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS! Mayor Chen Ta Sung today signed a new set of regulations governing business associations in the Shanghai Metropolitan area. The new rules have been hailed by city business leaders as a wise...

CHAPTER THREE Pravda September 14, 1951 WARSAW PACT WELCOMES DUTCH WORKERS SOCIALIST REPUBLIC! The members of the Warsaw Pact today formally and unanimously accepted the application by the Dutch Workers Republic to join the organization for self-defense and mutual aid. All of the...

CHAPTER TWO The Los Angeles Times September 13, 1951 Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood Sultry beauty Ava Gardner is enjoying a little quiet after the big success of Show Boat, but probably no peace. She’s still avoiding the limelight after breaking up Frank Sinatra’s happy marriage. Someone...

Lunch had not provided any further clues to resolve the mystery. In fact, Sims had been so matter-of-fact in the chit-chat during lunch, that Gerry had decided that there really wasn’t any mystery at all. All of what had seemed so strange to him, he decided, was simply due to his having...

Gerry Banks stepped off the train into the glaring sunlight of the late Los Angeles morning. He pitched the grey fedora down on his head and squinted along the length of the gleaming sleeper cars, looking for a porter. A young man stepped out of the crowd and walked directly up to Gerry...

Two things: As you'll see (and as the hint about the "Tojo-Stalin Pact" is meant to hint in what I've already posted), things develop in the East much, much differently than in OTL. I don't want to give too much away, because I find much of the charm of AH fiction to be the slow revelation...

It's interesting how different audiences have different criticisms based on their specific interests and passions. None of the few other people to whom I've shown this have been alternate history folks (although some have been history readers). A more common critique I've gotten is that I've...

Chapter One (continued ...) San Antonio Light September 12, 1951 RUBBER BOARD ANNOUNCES NEW JAPAN TARRIF POLICY AP Chicago. Calvin H. Straughan, President of the Rubber Producers Board, announced today that Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company had agreed with the proposal made by other...

If I were ever to try to fully polish this work, that would be a change I'd make. That one little "scene" was the first thing I wrote ... before this thing grew to the proportions it eventually took on. Having Eisenhower be someone that an "average Joe" wouldn't know about seemed like a way to...

Chapter One (Continued ...) September 11, 1951 Dear Danny, How are you? How are Ellen and the girls? I loved the pictures you sent in your last letter, but, Bubba, you have to send more! Things are good with me. I’ve been lucky, lucky, lucky; I’ve got my third trial under my belt and a...