REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?
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while it is of course your full right to withdraw the nomination, I do think you might be underselling yourself a little here. The "glacial" pace has not diminished the quality of the work in the slightest, and speaking of...the quality is top-notch. I do consider this to be one of my all-time favourites on the forum, well deserving of the praise it gets.
I look forward to every new installment, even if I have to wait a month between chapters, and your style of writing is so incredibly good. Imho it would not be out of place in proffesionally published works.
Keep doing amazing work my man, I'll be enjoying it till the very end
Great to read this going on! And interested in seeing how France survives until 1917 domestically.
And really enjoying how you're doing in WW1 here! Your other timeline finished it early on and you moved on to the rest of the world - I rather like how this is going and appreciate the focus being on Italy and the conflict.
And really enjoying how you're doing in WW1 here! Your other timeline finished it early on and you moved on to the rest of the world - I rather like how this is going and appreciate the focus being on Italy and the conflict.
Thank you very much. France is going to barely cling on until 1917- certainly, by the end of the year, its defeat will be imminent.
One thing I wanted to do differently here was to focus on the actual conflict and Italy's role therein.
It almost fascinating in the cosmic sorta way of seeing France committing suicide both on the Frontline and now at the Home Front.
This Nanterre Massacre is going to be one of the more infamous episodes of France long history on top of everything else in this war.
This Nanterre Massacre is going to be one of the more infamous episodes of France long history on top of everything else in this war.
Will it, though? In the grand scheme of things, plenty of riots get suppressed brutally - and Paris has had more than its fair share. Yet how many non-history-inclined remember the Paris Commune?
The revolution that follows, sure, they'll remember. But the spark that lit the fuse?
I mean, even I don't really know what set off the storming of the Bastille. I know it happened, and that it blew up into the French Revolution, but what sparked it... not really sure.
(and yes, I know Google can tell me)
In that case, what happened is that after Jacques Necker was dismissed (July 12), the people began fearing that the Royal troops around Paris would attempt to shut down the Constituent Assembly, which was meeting in Versailles, and began storming places where food, weapons, and supplies might be hoarded. At some point, a mob stormed the Hôtel des Invalides looking for weapons, and when they found out that some 250 barrels of gunpowder that had been stored at the Invalides were transferred to the Bastille previously, they went that way.
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This is a very good point. The events of summer 1916 aren't going to kick off yet another revolution and so people will remember them as part of the story of the Great War, but not a definitive turning point in the history of France. Now if the Third Republic was to collapse in the wake of defeat, that would be very different...
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@Kaiser Wilhelm the Tenth may i suggest your then, if you have need to take breath to make the realses of new chapter a monthly thing? like 1 at a month. this way we get to see this TL keep going and you get more time for yourself
I still want to stick to 1 a week- we have until July to wrap things up so plenty of time to cover events in detail.
So why does it say that the Police drew first blood if the protestors killed a policeman with a thrown brick before the shooting started?
Is it just because the police had guns? Because that seems arbitrary when the thrown brick seems to have killed that policeman just fine without being a gun.
Is it just because the police had guns? Because that seems arbitrary when the thrown brick seems to have killed that policeman just fine without being a gun.
I know this is a rather broad question, but how is morale and the economy holding up for the Central Powers? In general how is food doing - between Italy and Romania is the worst of the rationing being avoided, and is Italy getting enough coal from Germany to hold together?
And how is Austria-Hungary holding together since they seem to be doing a bit better on the attack?
And are the Brits shifting things to the Med or doing something like having the IJN send in ships to help like they did with destroyers for escort duty?
And how is Austria-Hungary holding together since they seem to be doing a bit better on the attack?
And are the Brits shifting things to the Med or doing something like having the IJN send in ships to help like they did with destroyers for escort duty?