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Interesting thread. I am curious if anyone has a favorite ACW novel in which the North wins a much bigger, more decisive victory earlier on than in OTL. Offhand, the only one I can think of in that vein is Gettysburg: An Alternate History which is mentioned upthread. It is very heavily...

re: the Isle of Wight. I refer anyone who seriously considers the IoW as a possible precursor to the main invasion of Britain to this post from a Sealion thread from last year, which very succinctly and clearly lays out the reasons why such an idea would be the height of folly, to say the...

Now that I think about it, instead of a movie, we need ... Operation Sea Lion: The Musical (to the tune of the Monkees theme song) Here we come Chugging’ across the Strait Trying to get to the beach head Before it’s way too late! Hey, hey, we're the Wehrmacht And people think we are...

I'm just waiting for Hollywood to come out with ... Sea Lion: The Movie! Just when you thought it was safe to dip your toes back in the AH.com forums, the Unmentionable Sea Mammal rears its ugly head again as it rises from the depths of Necro-Land to infest the forum once again. You'll never...

Of course, silly me! I was forgetting about those jolly good mates in the RAF, sitting around the airbase, sipping their Earl Grey because they would never even dream of attacking the invasion fleet. Why, that would not be sporting, now would it? (slaps forehead) It's almost as though...

Oh yes, I am quite certain the Royal Navy will refrain from, you know, actually attacking and sinking any of those vessels out of some perceived sense of fairness or playing on an even field. Why, those gracious Brits would of course leave those vessels alone. I mean, it's only the invasion of...

And this is something that I don't think has really been discussed all that much amongst the alt-history community. The consequences of a failed Sealion are potentially much, much worse for the Germans than losing a whole bunch of barges, tugboats, much of (if not essentially all) of the...

Anyone who thinks Operation Sealion had even the faintest ghost of a chance of success should read the first response to this question, posted on Quora.com, and the other replies to the question: Since the English Channel is such a narrow ditch ... Operation Sealion Could. Not. Work. in the...

And this is exactly why the Unmentionable Sea Mammal would have been a disaster for the Germans. In the Sandhurst wargame of the proposed invasion, the umpires practically bent over backwards to help the Germans out in pretty much every way they could and it still ended up being a German loss...

Morrell evens says that the Confederates are in for some "tough sledding" at one point as Operation Rosebud is about to commence.

IIRC, the Tsar was not in Petrograd when the Germans dropped their superbomb on that city. He survived the Second Great War, if memory serves correctly

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I read the book about a month ago. It's actually pretty good and I look forward to the next book in the Chamberverse.

I do have another question for the thread. I don't know if this has been talked about or speculated in this thread. It probably has, but in case not, I want to put this question out there for the thread to discuss. As in OTL postwar-Germany with the display of Nazi flags, symbols, etc. being...

Yeah, this pretty much sums it up.

In my opinion, the only AH novel I've ever read that actually puts forth a successful scenario in which Germany invades Britain in WWII is this one: S-Tag: A Memoir of the Invasion of England And even then, the author had the German invasion taking place almost TWO FULL YEARS after the Germans...

Hm. Perhaps the Germans could have built a whole passel of these things. And then put them along the French coast, so that the British would see them. And then the British would be so curious about what these things were that they would feel compelled to go across the Channel and tow...

This pretty much answers the OP's question that started this whole thread. The Unmentionable Sea Mammal has been talked. to. death. on this board. It's been talked to death because it has been shown time and time again that the Germans had very, very, very little chance of a successful...

This, times 10,000. The above four bullet points should simply be cut and pasted in as a reply every and any time some fanboy of the Unmentionable Sea Mammal pops up and says something like "Here's my idea of a successful Sealion/How could Sealion Succeed?/Has anyone ever posted a TL in which...

This is a very interesting thread, 20thCenturyBoy. The only quibble I have with this scenario is the timing of the election in the House. According to the Constitution, it is the new House of Representatives that is sworn in to office January that decides the issue if no candidate gets a...