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  1. WI: Germany concentrates on U-Boat production

    The item you fail to consider is that the US was producing far more besides tanks and aircraft. It produced something like 35 million tons of merchant shipping and over 8 million tons of warships (which together amounts to something like 30 times Germany's production in similar areas)...

  2. 1632... ok 1635

    With regards to the OP (having only read 1632, 1633, and 1634: the Baltic War), my thought is that by 1635, after 3 years of frantic activity and constant warfare, a lot of the 9/11 shock would have worn out. That, combined with the inevitable realization that the Ottoman Turks were a very...

  3. What if Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor are delayed a year or more?

    I don't think there's any doubt that with the Two Ocean Navy Bill, there is simply no way Japan can win a war with the U.S. However, the POD did specify a Japanese attack against the other imperial powers without an attack on the Philippines. Historically, it was shown that the conquest of the...

  4. Books with a medieval or Rennaisance industrial revolution...

    The Cross Time Engineer series A Polish engineer gets set back in time to Poland a decade or so before the Mongol invasion. An industrial revolution and war ensue, and everyone has a good time. I think there's 5 or 6 books in the complete series; the first 3 books were decent, then they went...

  5. Your Favorite Turtledove AH Character?

    Wait...did Yeager give the info to Straha but not tell the evil government agents that he had done so? What's the point of insurance if you don't tell the guys that are trying to kill you? Yeah, pretty much any one of those plans would have been better than what he did. Maybe we should...

  6. Your Favorite Turtledove AH Character?

    In regards to Sam Yeager, I thought what happened was he discovered the truth about the attack on the Colonization Fleet, knew people were going to come after him cause he now knew the truth, and then gave the info to Straha as an insurance plan to keep himself alive. That strikes me a pretty...

  7. British opinion after successful Valkyrie

    I can't remember where I got this from, but this is a table from some paper showing polls on the willingness of the US population to accept peace with the Germany army (in other words, peace with Germany after the army overthrew Hitler). In the US in mid-44, about 60% of those polled opposed...

  8. Pacific War Redux

    Excellent and very detailed timeline. It reads like a game of War in the Pacific. The success of air strikes in the Philippines seems a bit much, especially since so many of the pilots were USAAF without much anti-shipping experience. I'm reminded of the "success" of USN fliers from Yorktown and...

  9. WI New England sceceded from the United States?

    The support for the secession movement at the Hartford Convention has been grossly overstated. It was never a real possibility, despite the hopes of a few individuals at the assembly. No, they didn't. The convention met, submitted some rather ridiculous demands to Congress, and accomplished...

  10. Carrier gunbattles.

    While it's unlikely they would ever be worth their weight, in the event of a war in the late 20s or early 30s, they could very well have seen use. After all, in the 1929 USN fleet exercises, both Lexington and Saratoga (serving on different sides) were "sunk" by gunfire after accidently...

  11. Prince of Wales and the Repulse

    Didn't the Japanese have Kongo and one of her sisters, Haruna, I think, in the vicinity specifically hunting for the two British capital ships.

  12. WI Allies Try Operation Sledgehammer in 1942 and Fail?

    Egypt is probably safe, given at this point Montgomery is chasing them towards El Agheila. An Allied invasion of France, even a poorly conducted one, will likely consume many of the Axis reinforcements that historically went to Tunisia starting in November.

  13. The Panay War

    I don't think a 1937 embargo would lead to war in the same fashion as the 1941 embargo. Japan is in a much weaker position; the UK, France, and the Netherlands are not distracted by affairs in Europe and a preemptive strike on the Pacific Fleet is not possible since its based in California...

  14. Without the British "impressing" the US

    Nitpick: The war wasn't actually over during the Battle of New Orleans. Though the peace treaty had been signed, it had not been ratified by the U.S. Senate and thus hostilities were still technically going.

  15. Without the British "impressing" the US

    Yes, the OiC did essentially end impressment and it was issued prior to the DOW. However, it did not arrive in the US until the DOW was passed. I don't know what happened in the US after it came in, whether there was a greater push for peace. Madison had already either hinted at negotiations or...

  16. Without the British "impressing" the US

    No, without impressment there would have been no war. Remember that immediately after declaring war, Madison sent out peace emissaries - war was simply a way for Madison to say "we're serious, stop". (Naturally, the British reacted to that with something less than respect.) It was impressment...

  17. Union Blockade

    The importance of the blockade was not just restricting trade with the rest of the world, but also hurting southern coastal shipping. The south depended heavily on that trade and its exiting railway system was not up to the task of replacing it (and the south was not in a position to upgrade the...

  18. Lincoln defeated in 1860 Presidential election

    That's very true. I've been working on an ATL where Douglas dies just before the Democratic Party's convention in South Carolina. The Northern wing of the party is left without a leader and the Southern wing is able to force through a candidate. The Republicans, sensing blood in the water...

  19. Lincoln defeated in 1860 Presidential election

    While Breckenridge wouldn't have likely won the election on his own merits, IIRC, the Democrats controlled the majority of the states' House delegations. In other words, if the election can be thrown into the House and if the Democrats vote along party lines, we might see a Breckenridge victory...

  20. Germany defeats England

    By 1812, with the French having been largely contained on the continent for years, the Royal Navy had allowed its gunnery standards slip. Captain Broke (C.O. of the Shannon), to his credit, kept his ship up to standard, sometimes paying for additional gun powder for exercises out of his own...
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