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The Same General Scenario of this thread is imagined in a story Lois Tilton wrote in 1991: A Just and Lasting Peace It was a very interesting story when I first read it and it is quite relevant to this thread. Basically, the South suffers a much, much harsher "Reconstruction" (due to a POD...

Or more succinctly, they only care about making cents. Lots and lots of cents to add to their bank account.

The best answer to the question posed at the beginning of this thread is to watch the first few minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" in the context of imagining how the Germans might mount a succesful Sea Mammal That Shall Not Be Named. Imagine those first few minutes of SPR as from the perspective...

Just one minor correction. That would be "the freezing cold of the antarctic night" not "arctic night" Opposite ends of the earth, different hemispheres and all that.

Yeah, that's true about JF's build, it's just that I have this picture in my head of a heavyset guy, not as fat as Koenig, but not a "thin" person. As for what he looks like, I imagine someone who looks a little like Francisco Franco from OTL, features a little on the thin side, a small...

Well, mostly because toward the end of the series, I picture Jake Featherston as having gained a fair amount of girth around his midsection, but not really someone who "looks" like Wilford Brimley, more along the lines of someone with Wilford Brimley's build and height. I don't picture Jake...

Jake Featherston For some reason, whenever I picture Jake Featherston in my mind's eye, the picture that comes to mind (especially toward the end of the series) is someone who looks a lot like Wilford Brimley.

For me, the one moment that seems most surreal from the past 25 years is the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the fall of both the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall along with the re-unified Germany. If you had told someone 30 years ago that...

Excellent update, David! This is quite the engrossing thread to follow on this forum, among many such threads, I might add! One possible thing you might want to include in the next update would be the deaths of certain people whose passing would mark the "End of an Era" as it were. I am...

My immediate thought re: American pop culture in this TL's 1950s is Elvis Presley? Does he exist in this TL and if not, is there an equivalent for him?

That looks fine to me. (seeing that I am an Alaskan, it would be kind of cool for my state to get a little bit bigger, but what's just been proposed is just fine) Mac, It never ceases to amaze me the level of detail you've given in this thread and how everyone has been willing and able to...

Alaska's Boundaries in this TL The only question I have about the map is Alaska boundaries. They're the same as in OTL. Imperial Russian and Great Britain settled the northern part of the boundary (from the Arctic Ocean down to where Southeast Alaska starts) but the actual border between...

I for one would love to see Harry Harrison's "Rebel in Time" novel made into a movie. I think it would be a seriously kickass movie if it is done right and can remain faithful to the book.

I first read BtJ probably thirty years ago or so. It is still one of my favorite AH books because it works off the "for the want of a nail" premise, (i.e., one little change can make Big Changes in history) a premise it fills out and puts in great detail.

Hm. Now that is an interesting idea. I read a story in the anthology "Alternate Gettysburgs" based on a roughly similar premise. The story is "The High Water Mark" and its POD is that the Trent affair isn't contained, eventually leading to the involvement of the Great Powers in the US Civil...

Scipio/Xerxes was my favorite character simply because he managed to stay alive for so long. From the Union side: probably Cincinnatus Driver because he was such a badass, followed by Chester Martin, because he came across as an Everyman sort of character, i.e., a regular guy who fights in the...

Where around these parts is this "Up With the Star" TL, if I might ask?

I would say that How Few Remain is the best of the 11 books of the series, because it sets up the whole series. The rest of the series is uneven at best, some of of them are very good, others not so much. HFR is a standalone book and for that reason, I would like HT to write a "standalone"...

1969: The Beginning of the End? Wow, David! That was a truly epic update to this TL. I look forward to this TL's 1969 with great eagerness. I kind of suspect that things are not looking good for the Japanese and that it will only get worse for them. Good job on the update!

Yes, that's the one.