Have anybody seen it? Its a Yankwank to be realistic.
OOC: We are from TL-191 looking at OTL written by Turtledove. No RP allowed.
OOC: We are from TL-191 looking at OTL written by Turtledove. No RP allowed.
Yes.There were many original elements that set it apart from other AH; D-Day, the landings in the Pas de Calais (IIRC; it's been a while since I read the last few books).
I was somewhat sad to see the fate of the Socialist Party, though the Democrats ITTL seem to be heading in that direction at the end of their SGW-analogue.
I don't think it's that much of a Yankwank; all it requires is for McClellan to get a bit of pure luck, and quite frankly if the entire Rebel plan falls into his hands he should have been able to utterly destroy Lee's army.
I was somewhat skeptical of the US entry into the Great War; the Germans had to be mind-mindbogglingly stupid to bring the US in; they didn't even try to cover that telegram up! It's more of a German-screw than anything.
I heard that Turtledove is going to post an "epilogue" book called Aftershocks that deals with the TL-191 world up to 2011. But the info could be wrong...The cliffhanger end sounded sorta depressing though for the East Europeans. With the Red Army of Communist Russia, which was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in most of Eastern Europe, it doesn't sound like they'll be free for long.
Also there were bits of this Chinese Civil War. What's that all about?
I've heard that Aftershocks won't be published (as a full novel, anyway), but Turtledove has put some tidbits about the post-war world out:
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3. He waxed long about how Rumania will be ruled by a man who thinks he's Vlad Tepes returned (Turtledove's from Carpathia, so I think this provincialism is understandible, if annoying - it is the sole reason he smashed Austria up)
I've heard that Aftershocks won't be published (as a full novel, anyway), but Turtledove has put some tidbits about the post-war world out:
1. The fate of northern Choson won't be pleseant
2. The Shah of "Iran" will be overthrown, and a republic based on Shia teachings will be instituted (porbably based off the BTL uprising of '79, although BTL the Germans simply superbombed Tehran into a parking lot and made them take the Shah back, so why the ATL US doesn't do that is beyond me)
3. He waxed long about how Rumania will be ruled by a man who thinks he's Vlad Tepes returned (Turtledove's from Carpathia, so I think this provincialism is understandible, if annoying - it is the sole reason he smashed Austria up)
He's brutally harsh to a hole load of peoples. Jews, Germans, Poles. Has he got a hard-on for attacking various ethnic groups?!