Indian military power, let's go! I assume the free French and Russians might be involved too
The Iron Eagle II - Days of Strife
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We're about to get National-Socialism with Feminist characteristics. On a more serious note I wonder what exactly Klara's personal interpretation of Nazism is compared to her predeccesors.
Well, looks like US would be in some deep trouble pretty soon.
Oppressive government pursuing reactionary policy, major press being silenced, under equipped and dissatisfied military, hyperinflation…once a recession hit, this house of card would come down pretty quickly.
And Goldwater would be anything but a savior, his response to Mexico would be “bomb everything into ashes to teach those damned Mexicans a lesson, and glassed one or two city on the way out.”
Oppressive government pursuing reactionary policy, major press being silenced, under equipped and dissatisfied military, hyperinflation…once a recession hit, this house of card would come down pretty quickly.
And Goldwater would be anything but a savior, his response to Mexico would be “bomb everything into ashes to teach those damned Mexicans a lesson, and glassed one or two city on the way out.”
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So Klara continues to undermine Remer, we get to see what Wheeler's up to, the start of the Mexican War (Kaiser you are fucking incredible at foreshadowing i swear), Goldwater plotting to take down the Populists (i really wanna know who this Ed guy is) and we likely have a future war to kick Britain out of the Gulf? Part 3 is gonna be wild indeed.
Well, there is an Ed that Goldwater sort of agreed with, even as he hated the man's stances. General Edwin Walker. WW2 veteran and IOTL Korean War veteran. Tried to become the Governor of Texas IOTL (with the Democrats), failed in the preliminaries to LBJ's favourite. Ardent segregationist who supported Goldwater's stance that desegregation should be left up to the states. Got arrested for inciting riots against desegregation of Texas schools. Also, ardent McCarthyist, anti-communist and his speeches were generally pretty heavy on religious metaphor - calling the Supreme Court anti-Christ and such. He considered Kennedy to be a communist, in point of fact. ITTL, he'd probably consider Long a communist, too, if he developed his hatred of communists.
Interesting character, too. Lee Harvey Oswald probably tried to assassinate him and he could very well have been gay (he was arrested IOTL for propositioning a male undercover police officer, was never married and didn't have children).
That said, he had very little in common with Goldwater himself - save that they were both pretty right-wing (albeit in different fields). And the connection is tenuous.
Now, which one of these last 20 chapters (plus epilogue) did you enjoy most? Any characters that picked your attention?
For me the Chapter about free France was my favorite. You have a really solid reason for Napoleon to be able to return
The Remer-Klara relationship post-Goebbels gave me chills because it reminded me of how a former friend turned on me.
Richard, Prince of Wales struck me as I’m currently writing a book and saw some similar traits in my protagonist.
Der Angriff and Vierfuhrertag
As for characters Lieutenant Mozorkin and the Israeli family during the Nazi-Israeli war chapter and teaser.
The Iron Eagle III - Fallen Eagle
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