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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    The worse the situation in Russia gets for the Russians, the more pressure Churchill is going to feel under to do something like go in in the Balkans to try and get Turkey into the war or run his 'Operation Jupiter' to liberate Norway and clear the Arctic Convoys route from anything except...

  2. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Did Mussolini issue a gramophone recording or something of him giving these orders, to be played daily to the garrison 'to help improve morale'? If the British captured such a recording, I can see they have something they could broadcast, which involves Mussolini's own voice, but otherwise I...

  3. France Fights On (English Translation) - Thread II - To the continent!

    Thanks. With an infantry regiment I can see a case, where there is at least a continuous chain of soldiers ongoing passing down regimental stories and traditions (and the standard, of course!), but with warships, where there is at one time a completely new build??? Oh well....

  4. France Fights On (English Translation) - Thread II - To the continent!

    How on Earth does that 'Battle Honours' system work, since I see one ship listed as having fought in 1707, and I'm fairly certain that outside of ASB scenarios they didn't have metal hulled marine engine ships in 1707? Is it something to do with 'all ships which have had the name?'

  5. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    On French North Africa, I would like to direct attention (for those with access to the volume) to the excerpts of his speech of 10th December, 1942, when the UK Parliament was meeting in Secret Session, which Churchill gives in the chapter 'The Darlan Affair' of Volume IV of his WW2 memoirs. He...

  6. Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    The Indian Army was also coming for Imperial Japan in Southeast Asia, with a million plus troops, and was tying up the loose ends from having steamrolled the Imperial Japanese in Burma in mid-1945, as far as I understand it - and reorganising and maybe readying even more troops for the next...

  7. Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    I don't see how, absent ASB intervention, Imperial Japan is going to be allowed by Washington D.C. to dictate terms and conditions for its surrender after Pearl Harbour, the Bataan Death March, and various other offences and atrocities against the USA. The USA is going to keep coming for...

  8. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Weygand has the problem that if French North Africa flips, without the Germans occupying European mainland Vichy France first, Weygand gets the blame for the Germans subsequently occupying European mainland Vichy France. As the Germans will be very pointedly reminding Pétain, Laval, and...

  9. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Well, okay, it's out on a limb (the Levant) at the east end of the Mediterranean, so easier to apply pressure. Not sure what this will do for independence in the area. I think original timeline Syria, etc, got promised independence as part of being militarily rolled over by the Allies and...

  10. What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?

    I'm making the point (or at least trying to make a point) that even if the entire British cabinet were planning to fight on at the end of May 1940 on the basis of losing every last soldier and gun at Dunkirk, they were not planning to fight on on the basis of losing everything at Dunkirk and...

  11. What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?

    But France is still fighting at the start of June 1940. If/when France (apart from de Gaulle) goes Vichy and surrenders, then it will no longer be true that the UK's main continental ally is (apart from de Gaulle) still fighting.

  12. A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world: George H.W. Bush and John Major win

    Major managed to hold his own (fairly safe) seat, in Huntingdon, in 1997, so maybe he was talking about his personal situation if he really did say something about staying elected? Or maybe he had taken some kind of mind-altering substance and had a very loose grip on reality - it wouldn't...

  13. A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world: George H.W. Bush and John Major win

    If you mean the 1997 UK General election, I don't see that Major can win without massive points of departure. Only a few months after the 1992 election, the Conservatives drove the UK economy off a financial cliff, in pursuit of Major's obsession with keeping the UK inside the European Exchange...

  14. What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?

    As I think I've said on one of the previous umpteen occasions that this topic has come up, the capture/annihilation of most of the British Expeditionary Force on the beach at Dunkirk compounds the subsequent disaster (if that still goes ahead, approximately to schedule) of the Fall of France...

  15. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Maybe there's a book here that you could research and write! :)

  16. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Nah. You feed them details of the successful ones framed with a lot of 'my sources claimed' and 'I can hardly believe it!', as if it's exaggeration. That way the Germans get complacent, until they get a really nasty surprise, but after the surprise, they value the agent a lot more.

  17. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    The British were in panic mode after the Fall of France, having lost a lot of equipment on the beaches of Dunkirk (and indeed the 51st Division, left stranded somewhere in Northern France), and then having to desperately import obsolete equipment from the USA and settle for untried tank designs...

  18. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    That, uhh, must have made life as a quartermaster much much too interesting. ('What do you mean, you wanted a dozen smalls arms bore cleaning brushes, and not a dozen 94mm HEAT rocket systems?')

  19. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Thanks! Is it known if they had a good track record when used?

  20. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Hmm. Original timeline Churchill made reference to something he called 'puff-balls' in a memo to General Ismay dated 6th May, 1942. There's a footnote that these were 'Aerial anti-tank bombs, invented by Colonel Jefferis'. (Reference in 'Appendix C' of Volume IV of Churchill's WW2 memoirs.)...
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