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  1. Battle of the Atlantic.....

    I agree with the posters that mentioned the facts about Graf Zeppelin, i.e. especially lack of proper naval aircraft and training, as well as rather small number of aircraft on board, and total lack of torpedo bombers. Furthermore, Germany, without a significant change in strategy much earlier...

  2. Help Me With My Homework:

    Well...the third item in the list should have given a good hint IMHO:)

  3. Uncle Willy: Effects on Germany of a US-German alliance

    I doubt that substantial changes will occur to the German army or interior politics. However, I think that we would see a very different High Seas Fleet. With the UK as a common enemy, and a strong partner overseas, Germany will probably design its navy with a different strategic goal. The...

  4. Conquest of Austrailia

    Did anyone have a look at the length of the Japanese supply lines in case of an attack on Brisbane or Sydney? I do not see how to they could manage to land and resupply a sufficiently large ground force. A raid on Darwin, yes. An occupation of Darwin, maybe. Even some carrier raid on Brisbane or...

  5. The worst What If Book(s) you have read

    First, I have to say that I have not read several AH books which got overall bad ratings (did not want to purchase them at regular price in that case, and did not yet find them on ebay). Still, I did read quite a lot of AH. Based on that, I think that Stars and Stripes is the absolute academy...

  6. Harry Turtledove-Your opinion

    There are good works by HT (e.g. How Few Remain, World War series, various short stories), mediocre ones (such as the the Great War series or the second WorldWar series) and rather bad ones (such as the Return Engagement and American Empire series). My rating of the latter series as bad is...

  7. A Prosperous post-Morgenthau Germany

    Is that the novel by Thomas Ziegler, "Stimmen der Nacht"?

  8. Robert Conroy's 1862

    According to this site http://www.thoemmes.com/dictionaries/bdm_carnegie.htm British steel production in 1870 was 292,000 tons, while the US only produced 69,000 tons. Some ships built in Britain: Rolf Krake (begun in 1862, commissioned in 1863 for Danish navy)...

  9. Robert Conroy's 1862

    According to this site http://www.thoemmes.com/dictionaries/bdm_carnegie.htm British steel production in 1870 was 292,000 tons, while the US only produced 69,000 tons. Some ships built in Britain: Rolf Krake (begun in 1862, commissioned in 1863 for Danish navy)...

  10. Carl Amery's books

    We are moving a bit OT, but nevertheless... there is at least one Ditfurth novel in which Hitler is killed in 1932, but I have not read it yet. Furthermore, I still have to get the one with Rosa Luxemburg. However, I will wait for them to either show up on ebay or to be available in a cheap...

  11. Robert Conroy's 1862

    This book is a lot better than the infamous "Stars and Stripes". The naval battles have a more realistic touch, and there is no sudden alliance of the CSA with the US due to British incompetences. Nevertheless, I fear that I have to join Mr. Stirling's side. It is very unlikely that the US...

  12. Carl Amery's books

    Concerning the "German" comment, well, I think that the majority at this board cannot speak German... On Ditfurth, I have read "Der 21. Juli" (July 21st), AH based on Stauffenberg, not too bad, but also not very realistic, and there also is "Die Mauer steht am Rhein" (the wall stands at the...

  13. Details, S.M. Stirling — How Do You Do It?

    Hum...my wife says that I eat books:) , referring to my reading speed. It should be comparable to Ian's figures. However, my private collection is not that large. A couple of hundred books on naval history and novels with a naval background, plus several hundred SF and Fantasy titles, of course...

  14. Carl Amery's books

    Well, being German, I do not know if it counts as a true answer...:) However, I have read Koenigsprojekt as well as the Leyermark, and enjoyed both of them.

  15. Do people conceived after the POD in OTL still exist in an ATL?

    It mostly depends on distance in time from the POD, and on the actual circumstances. For example, if we have the Glorious Revolution fail in 1688, this will not have immediate effect on people that are born in Japan in 1690 or probably even in 1790. On the other hand, if the Central Powers...

  16. Great Global War Discussion

    There are some import deviations to OTL in your selection of naval bases. The UK does not use Scapa Flow, but Liverpool and Southampton in 1919? Germany has a base in Koenigsberg (bad choice due to ice risk), but nothing in Wilhelmshaven? France has replaced Toulon with Marseille and...

  17. C.S.A. The Movie

    There are good satires and bad satires. This does not exactly look like a good one (Hitchhiker's Guide IS):)

  18. C.S.A. The Movie

    Well, the timeline is utterly implausible. "CSS Maine" - why the hell would the CSA name a warship after a New England state? WW1 is ignored for whatever reason, but there still are Nazis in Germany? Still a JFK assassination in 1963, and a McKinley assassination? Oh no, looks like a "first try...

  19. The UK keeps Helgoland

    A British Helgoland would definitely change Germany's naval strategy in WW1, because it would be a constant threat to the German fleet. I would expect the British to fortify it heavily and to lay mines as well. However, it is doubtful if the island could be held against a German assault, unless...

  20. Munich 1972 Olympics

    I do have considerable doubt that the Israeli army of 1972 had sufficient training for a successful hostage rescue in Munich. If you want to refer to Entebbe as a counter-argument, I would like to mention that the situation there was very different.
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