DBWI: Book discussion: Turtledove's "The War That Came Late"

For those not in the know, Turtledove's series on the Second World War starts with two different divergences:

1. On the 20th of July, 1936, José Sanjurjo, leader of the Spainish Nationalists, suffers a plane crash, allowing Francisco Franco to take the lead, who instead keeps Spain Axis-aligned, but still neutral in the actual war.

2. The assassination of Konrad Henlein by Jaroslav Stribny during the Munich Crisis never happens, forcing Hitler to delay his invasion of Czechoslovakia. This alternate invasion happening in Feb. 1939 doesn't stir the Entente into action, and it takes until the invasion of Poland in September of that year for the war in Europe to begin proper.

Here's a good enough summery of the events of the book: ienps://en.biblopedia.net/biblo/The_War_That_Came_Late

I wanted to know what other people thought of it, and if they thought Turtledove did a good enough job in terms of historical plausibility (IMO, Hitler's War takes the cake in terms of historical unlikelihood when, after half a year of doing nothing, the French army keels over and dies right there. Sure, the German invasion highlighted the dangerous amount of rot in the army at the time, but surely the material advantage the Entente had over German would be even greater by then? Then there's the matter of invading Poland rather than allying with it...).
 
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