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    Shimbo's AH Book Reviews: The Madagaskar Plan

    Many of you will have read Guy Saville's debut alternate history thriller, The Afrika Reich, which was very popular. In The Afrika Reich the protagonist, Burton Cole, attempted to assassinate the German governor of Kongo, Walter Hochburg. He spent much of that novel on the run across Africa...
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    Shimbo's AH Book Reviews - The Afrika Reich

    The Afrika Reich was written by Guy Saville and published in 2011. It’s a military thriller set in an alternate history where there was a truce between Britain and Germany in 1940. By 1952, when the book is set, Germany dominates Europe and Africa and has carried out a massive genocide of...
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    Official A Kill in the Morning Thread

    Rather than have multiple posts about A Kill in the Morning I thought it'd be better to bring it all together in one thread. You might already know the backstory of A Kill in the Morning. I wrote it here in 2009-11 as a 'James Bond versus the Nazis' story. It was very popular, winning the...
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    The Tagline for A Kill in the Morning

    Hey, my publishers have announced what the tagline for A Kill in the Morning is going to be. To celebrate I’ve also designed some wallpaper featuring the tagline. Is this what the cover is going to look like? Not really, there is a connection though. I've designed several posters based...
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    Shimbo's AH Book reviews - Fatherland by Robert Harris

    Fatherland was written by Robert Harris and published in 1992. It is set in a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World War. By 1964, Germany dominates the whole of Europe. However, Hitler is nearing his seventy-fifth birthday and has not been seen in public for months. Germany is...
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    Shimbo's AH Book reviews - SS-GB by Len Deighton

    SS-GB was written by Len Deighton and published in 1978. It is a classic work of Alternate History, set in a world where Nazi Germany invaded Great Britain in 1940. Logline In a Britain occupied by Nazi Germany, a British detective investigates the murder of a nuclear physicist. He must...
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    A Revolutionary Republican Britain

    I'm working on a story at the moment set in a Britain where the monarchy and religion have been swept away by the wave of revolutionary fervor instigated by the French Revolution. This poster is from that world. With the monarchy abolished and religion suppressed, the symbol of Britain is...
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    Eisenhower's resignation letter - 1944

    In the film of Fatherland , the point of departure for the alternate history is the failure of the D-Day landings. I took that scenario and imagined the message that General Eisenhower would have written to the troops after their defeat. It is based on two real artifacts: The content...
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    A Different Second Ammendment to the US Constitution

    "There shall be no standing army but in time of actual war." Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776. "I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies." Thomas Jefferson to...
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    Alternate WW1 German Raid on Scarborough etc

    I was just looking at this article when I came across this AH possibility: "Ingenohl had already exceeded the strict limit of his standing orders from the Kaiser by involving the main German fleet in the operation without mentioning to the Kaiser that he intended to do so. At 5.30 a.m., mindful...
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    Unmentionable Sea Mammal in 1941

    We all know the Operation Unmentionable Sea Mammal was doomed to failure for multitudinous reasons in 1940. But here's an idea. What if Hitler had decided to concentrate on one enemy at a time and knock Britain out of the war before turning to the USSR? With top priority going to the air and...
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    The Man in the High Castle

    My previous thread about the AH of Robert Harris's 'Fatherland' got me thinking about other AH books I've read. Now 'The Man in the High Castle' is even more literary book than 'Fatherland', (although IMO both are excellent in their different ways), so it isn't really that much of a concern...
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    Fatherland

    Someone posted this list of objections to the AH of Fatherland by Robert Harris to its wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherland_%28novel%29). I deleted them as they are not suitable material for wikipedia. However, I think the criticisms themselves have some merit so I've...
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    Cuba in the CSA during and after the US Civil War

    Inspired by a thread on Taiwan and the following: During the summer of 1848, President James Knox Polk authorized his ambassador to Spain, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, to negotiate the purchase of Cuba and offer Spain up to $100 million. PoD: Spain agrees to sell the island, which becomes...
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    Anglo-German Peace Treaty in 1941

    On 10th May 1941, Rudolph Hess, deputy Fuhrer of Nazi Germany, arrives in Scotland. Low on fuel, his Messerschmitt 110 touches down at the airstrip of Dungavel House the estate of the Duke of Hamilton. There to meet the Deputy Führer, is the Duke of Kent, King George V’s younger brother and...
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