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See post #13 in this thread... My main interest was in exploring the "what ifs" of military technology and how it was deployed during the war; I just don't have the same level of interest in what happened afterwards (and, believe me, I have to be passionately interested in a subject before...

Very professional!

I would assume that it would take quite a long time of testing the throwbacks' knowledge of the future before they would be believed enough to make major alterations in national policy on their say-so. In TFW I focus initially on the British throwback, and it is clear that the kind of...

Well done, most impressive! I think the Churchill and the German tanks are exactly right, the Crusader maybe a bit longer and sleeker than I had imagined.

Early rain, warm and sunny later. :D I went to some lengths to check those facts which I could. My alternative D-day really was on the right date for the very high tide needed. And the weather around my D-day was exactly as described: I spent some time trawling through microfilms of...

Thanks for your comments, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. I decided to concentrate on the UK and Germany, as I didn't want to spread the net too wide and risk losing the focus of the book. It is of course possible to debate all of the choices I made in the book - there are no right answers -...

Friday 3rd September, 1934. In the morning :)

You can read the first two chapters here: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/TFW%20Extract.htm

The Italian TFW I referred to earlier actually devotes a first, large part of the story to the Spanish Civil War - lots of stuff there I didn't know about.

The problem with a 'Foresight Japan' is that the most important message from the future would be "don't attack the USA!", which if followed would make for a rather boring story....

An Italian friend has also gone a long way to writing an interesting - and very different - novel based on an Italian "throwback", but it isn't finished or available yet.

No. Military officers were rotated between assignments, anywhere in the world. As I posted before, General Percival was highly rated as a brilliant staff officer in peacetime - he just couldn't cope with the stress of war, but no-one realised that until it was too late. It is certainly true...

It's been many years now, but I did study the campaign in detail when researching it for my alternative history novel The Foresight War. The biggest problem was certainly incompetent British leadership. First of all there were "turf wars" between the service heads who did not cooperate...

A fanciful notion, but a deity is not required to understand the psychology. The Japanese were convinced of their own racial superiority and had a powerful military culture which could accept only success. To even consider the possibility of failure was regarded as an unacceptable disgrace and...

People are remarkably adaptable and are able to "reset" their perceptions of normality to whatever they are experiencing. So as long as they have food and a roof over their heads, they can find things to be cheerful about in all but the worst circumstances. If the worst-case projections of...

There's already been a thread on it, HERE Current average score on US and UK amazon (26 reviews) 4/5.

Well done, gtrof, some nice drawings there. I would have squared-off the hull at the back of the tank and put the turret further back: with the engine at the front, the entire back half of the vehicle was available for the armament (like a bigger version of the Scorpion light tank).

A Gatling was actually motorised in the 1890s and hit c.3,000 rpm IIRC, but at the time no-one could see a need for a gun which wasted ammo at such a prodigious rate. The problem with a WW2 aircraft Gatling is that fighter guns were generally mounted either in the wings, or in the cowling...

IIRC the bomb was originally planned to be used against Germany, but was switched to Japan when it became clear that Germany was collapsing. I doubt that they would have chosen Berlin, simply because they didn't choose Tokyo. They would probably have chosen a smaller city, as yet with little...

Thanks, I sit corrected! I vaguely recalled the British steam turbine experiment and knew it hadn't succeeded, but evidently it did better than I realised.