DBWI: Just read 191

Wow, just wow. I never read this because of the amount of books, but I have to say it was totally not realistic. Some of my complaints:

First, is this Adolf Hitler. Seriously, this guy is pretty much a ripoff of Jake Featherston who happens to hate Jews for no reason. Why do we need another population reduction? I know this is Turtledove who loves to parallel the original timeline, but it makes no sense whatsoever. Plus, he's an Austrian, not a German. I doubt the good people in Germany could go crazy enough to let this guy get elected.

Second, these orders 191 that happened to get into the Unions hands seems very ASB. Why the heck would anyone in the south carelessly drop anything of that importance. It makes no sense.

Third, why does he basically discount monarchy as a political system early on. It is very effective form of government.

Finally, why did he kill Custer so early. Seriously, he is one of my favorite historical figures and is kill 1876. Why?
 
Wow, just wow. I never read this because of the amount of books, but I have to say it was totally not realistic. Some of my complaints:

First, is this Adolf Hitler. Seriously, this guy is pretty much a ripoff of Jake Featherston who happens to hate Jews for no reason. Why do we need another population reduction? I know this is Turtledove who loves to parallel the original timeline, but it makes no sense whatsoever. Plus, he's an Austrian, not a German. I doubt the good people in Germany could go crazy enough to let this guy get elected.

Second, these orders 191 that happened to get into the Unions hands seems very ASB. Why the heck would anyone in the south carelessly drop anything of that importance. It makes no sense.

Third, why does he basically discount monarchy as a political system early on. It is very effective form of government.

Finally, why did he kill Custer so early. Seriously, he is one of my favorite historical figures and is kill 1876. Why?

Too bad something like that didn't happen for real. Fricken' murderous scumbag.

I bet that you liked how the US stays united, though more compact. No implosion in 1986. The breakup of Red Russia was a blatant parallel to the collapse of the Union, and of America's return to her proper borders. The troubles in the other post communist ex-Russian states are also a blatant parallel to the difficulties in post occupation Canada, Texas/North Mexico, Virginia, Carolina, and in The Mississippi Commonwealth.

Mind, you, having Morrel as a German *Freedomite was groan inducing, though "Patton the hero" was relatively original. A US-UK alliance was new, but not unprecedented.

I agree with you about Hitler/*Featherston. To make him believable, at the least he should have been a Prussian officer, not an Austrian/Bavarian thug.
 
The Japanese role was also interesting. I mean, they actively waged war in China, France, the United Kingdom, and the USA at the same freaking time! I mean, Japan isn't crazy!

One positive thing I guess is the use of nuclear weapons (or should i say lack there off). But it seems weird that two nuke are used, but on two minor Japanese cities, not even on major places!

Finally, literally, why did he have Hitler commit suicide? So anti-climatic. I mean, with all his parallel loving I expected him to have him be flying over Germany in the final days of the war, get shot down by a American plane and then crash and be killed by some Jewish Partisans.
 
No, hitler wasn't in the airforce, I think. I'll have to look it up.

edit: Wait, I just realized that at your comment does not mean he was specifically flying.
 
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