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  1. What Can Japan Do To Improve The Performance Of Its WW2 Submarine Fleet?

    Their sub drivers talked too much. Forget the codebreaking - from early on the USN was able to predict future positions quite accurately based on DF, and was able to lay on a couple of successful ambushes. This is simply a matter of proper security.

  2. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    I've dug up a movie in which the Madsen featues prominently, if not very correctly. It's the 1964 take of James Jones; The Thin Red Line, vaguely based on the book. Pretty grim for the time, though not really much cop. Keir Dullea gets into practice for dealing with HAL. Apparently made in...

  3. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    The Third Iteration had an airship dogfight Several subsequent posts about this.

  4. Upcoming AH books

    Sandra Newman has written a take on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Julia, which tells the same story from the POV of Winston Smith's lover. Guardian review Will definitely look for this on my next trip to the library. Note: avoid the NYT review, as it apparently gives far too much away.

  5. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Airships, of course.

  6. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Welcome back. Great updates, as ever. I think Santos Dumont has fallen off here. IOTL they had mixed fuel boilers - oil sparayed over coal - until their late '30s rebuilds.

  7. Germany sends Blucher to Kamerun at war start

    British posters Shout at the Devil is on freeview channel Legend, tomorrow at 01.25. Also on freeview channel GREAT! Movies, 9 March, 15.10

  8. Leander class frigate refit sanity options

    Evertsen (and possibly others) was fitted with SQR-18 during the upgrades. All had new hull sonars. I remember her being sunk twice by friendly forces during TEAMWORK 88 - she was the closest escort to Invincible, which launched an air strike at her.

  9. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 4

    I copied an old post of mine from Thread 2. Captured Matilda II, which I've seen wrongly described as being in the desert. Pintle mounted KwK 38 L/42. I've got the same picture somewhere else - I think it's with a coastal defence unit somewhere in northern France.

  10. España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    The Eldorado Network, by Derek Robinson, one of the books referenced in the linked piece, is very good - a pitch black comedy, like all the author's works,

  11. 2024 Turtledoves - (Closes (16/02/24) - Best Finished Timeline Nominations and Seconds

    I nominate Best Finished Timeline: Keynes Cruisers; @fester

  12. España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    Just caught up with this. Really good, with well thought out cod-sources. C.J. Sansom's novel Winter in Madrid has a good portrayal of the desperates straits of the Spanish people at this time. My opinion Quibble: StG2 was a Geschwader, a wing of about 120 aircraft. StG2 was a skilful and...

  13. 2024 Turtledoves - (Closes (15/02/24) - Best Early 20th Century Timeline Nominations and Seconds

    I second the above nomination for: Best Early 20th Century Timeline: The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL; @The Red

  14. Germany sends Blucher to Kamerun at war start

    The 1976 movie Shout at the Devil, from a Wilbur Smith novel, has Blücher off German East Africa, for whatever reason. Since the fiendish Huns are up against Roger Moore and Lee Marvin, guess who wins? Trailer

  15. 2024 Turtledoves - (Closes (15/02/24) - Best Colonialism and Revolutions Timeline Nominations and Seconds

    I nominate: Best Colonialism and Revolutions Era Timeline: Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline): @Miss Construction

  16. 2024 Turtledoves - (Closes (15/02/24) - Best Early 20th Century Timeline Nominations and Seconds

    I nominate: Best Early 20th Century Timeline: Selig Sind Die Toten - Scheubner-Richter's Reich: @Ana Luciana II

  17. Upcoming AH books

    Molly Odintz has penned a feature on mysteries and thrillers in the field of speculative fiction due out. It includes Cahokia Jazz, which I mentioned upthread, and am currently consuming now (absorbing, but not an easy read). https://crimereads.com/15-speculative-crime-novels-coming-out-in-2024/

  18. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Copied an old post of mine from the book thread.

  19. Cuba

    Found a review of this:

  20. The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL

    Full episode here.
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