So, I just finished Turtletaub's The War That Came Late, where the 1938 Munich Giveaway of Czechoslovakia doesn't fall apart and the German annex the Czech's land intact. And I have to say, it was pretty damn good.
There are a few liberties taken, especially in the early books (a Panzer Attack in the Ardennes is used to take out France, for instance), but overall its a really good read. I was a pretty big fan of the whole 'Hitler vs. Stalin' part of the war from OTL getting put on steroids (although, again, some liberties are taken: Germany, with only minor aid from a bunch of minor countries like Romania, manages to advance further than they did with the help of Britain and France in OTL).
What I can't decide is if Turtletaub's world is better or worse off than ours. Sure, he makes it so Japan's a lot weaker by late '44 and hasn't sowed half the Pacific with various diseases, but Stalin's grabbed a bigger chunk of Europe, a few million Jews are dead and Germany's been reduced to a pile of rubble.
So...any opinions on it?
There are a few liberties taken, especially in the early books (a Panzer Attack in the Ardennes is used to take out France, for instance), but overall its a really good read. I was a pretty big fan of the whole 'Hitler vs. Stalin' part of the war from OTL getting put on steroids (although, again, some liberties are taken: Germany, with only minor aid from a bunch of minor countries like Romania, manages to advance further than they did with the help of Britain and France in OTL).
What I can't decide is if Turtletaub's world is better or worse off than ours. Sure, he makes it so Japan's a lot weaker by late '44 and hasn't sowed half the Pacific with various diseases, but Stalin's grabbed a bigger chunk of Europe, a few million Jews are dead and Germany's been reduced to a pile of rubble.
So...any opinions on it?