Search results

It's like a title fight eliminator... Regards R

This TL continues to come along nicely. What is the status of Iceland? Are they still a belligerent with Denmark occupied? If U-boats don't want to run the gauntlet of the Channel, then the Iceland-Faroes gap becomes important, and Iceland may be a base for ASW. On an unrelated topic, if...

Ha! He'll be as difficult to pin down politically as Peron in Argentina was later. Regards R

Sorry, I only just came back to this. Yes I did mean counter-factual. It's an ASB ISOT thread, but they do hit Minsk by mistake.... This may only work if you are a member there. Regards R

You've been reading something over at CF.net Regards R

Window? Fire suppression on American carriers using Carbon Dioxide. Regards R

A slightly stronger Byzantium holds them back in the mid-thirteenth century, and they get smashed much more badly by Timurlane, resulting in a fracturing into competing successor states. Regards R

Not just Canadians. It would be more popular with British holidaymakers. Perhaps a cheaper alternative to the West Indies? Regards R

How about Stalin dies in an accident ahortly after 1950, or perhaps is so badly injured that nobody is sure who is in charge. Then there is a Beria/NKVD faction, a Molotov/party faction and an army faction, which might have several possible leaders. It's not certain who is in charge. Throw in...

IIRC their was a big problem in the 80s and 90s with Guatemalans fleeing the military regime and setting up villages in Belize. On the Belize side, it's a national park, but there simply weren't enough rangers to keep the Guatemalans out. Perhaps they might not want to, understanding why they...

Does this mean we see a communist "North Tokyo" enclave? Regards R

That's an interesting idea. Perhaps though we miss out on Kate Beckinsale's Hollywood career, or maybe they star together in something? Regards R

Something similar maybe doable. If after 1918 the Russian civil war drags on longer, but the Reds are still entrenched in Moscow, perhaps Poland is persuaded to intervene on the White side? Then the Whites/Ukrainian nationalists are driven back and basically become a puppet of Polish forces in...

I read that in the late 70s when I was a teenager (yes, I'm an old git), so it's a long time ago. Kingsley Amis's The Alteration worked off a similar premise, but went in a very different direction. I liked the bit about the semaphore towers, but IIRC there was something supernatural...

I doubt she would be asked that question. She has (I assume) no legal qualifications. The defence or the judge might ask her if other German soldiers had been looking for escaped prisoners, and if it were a regular occurrence. Regards R

Well, the surefire way of screwing up a country is have it become a battleground. Civil war would do it. Maybe something akin to Spain, where there is an attempted military coup that doesn't succeed, and then the other side start to arm for the long haul. Foreign powers keep arming one side or...

The World at War states that of the two million plus Soviet prisoners from 1941, only 3% survived to 1945. Regards R

Oh, and a small point about spies: MI6 recruited Oleg Gordievsky a year or two before this. Has Lavender given him away? Turning it around, Gordievsky was probably too junior in the KGB to be let in on the Lavender identity. Regards R

Anarchy in the UK? :D Regards R

This is good fun. The Russians would be upset with France, as they had an alliance, which may have repercussions later. All this unpleasantness between the future allies is of benefit primarily to Germany. Regards R