Hello All!
I has been a long time since I want to write a TL on this subject and you will find a little teaser of what I am planning later on. However before committing to regular updates and the like, I want to make sure that I get as much materials as possible from the community before, in the name of accuracy.
Butterflies catchers, be warned that I do plan on having plenty of butterflies by the end of this TL which will hopefully last until the present day. The France and Britain of TTL 2009 will be VERY DIFFERENT and pretty much everywhere.
Here is a rough outline of what I am planning as far as early World War Two is concerned:
-The 16th of June 1940 Franco-British Union Treaty is signed.
-Mediterranean Theatre focus, the hunt for the Regia Marina, the end of the Quarta Sponda
-Consequences in Europe
-Consequences in Asia
Things are a little more vague after the first year of war, in particular there is a biggie:
Will Singapore Fall?
As far as post war is concerned I intend for Europe to be vastly different, the iron curtain will not be in the same place and not necessarily further east.
I do intend for the Franco-British to last beyond the war and the constitutional/political arrangements of the resulting beast will occupy a large place in the TL.
Anyway here is a little teaser:
Some says that history is predetermined and that it is only the work of underlying currents taking place over a long period of time. This however does not account for the most important event of the century, the Declaration of Anglo-French Unity signed on the 17th June 1940 in the small Breton town of Concarneau. Still, some will say that after centuries if not millennia of common history the lands of the British Isles and of France were bound to be part of the same nation and points out to the numerous occasions were this nearly happened during the Middle Ages among other times. In any case, a union of nations in the face of a common enemy was a first in the history of the world and a first which was very close from not happening at all.
It is during the afternoon and early evening of the 16th June 1940 that the fate of France was to be decided. We know for sure that then the French cabinet was divided between voices in favour of ending the war as soon as possible and voices pleading for a continuation of the war from North Africa. The Président du Conseil position was all but easy during that day, yet the man was not down yet as his first decision of firing the Chief of Staff Maxime Weygand showed. The proposal was accepted by 13 to 9 votes and what would subsequently known as the grand déménagement (the great move) put in action.
France had lost the battle but had not lost the war as the signatures of Paul Reynaud and Winston Churchill on the two page document showed.
I has been a long time since I want to write a TL on this subject and you will find a little teaser of what I am planning later on. However before committing to regular updates and the like, I want to make sure that I get as much materials as possible from the community before, in the name of accuracy.
Butterflies catchers, be warned that I do plan on having plenty of butterflies by the end of this TL which will hopefully last until the present day. The France and Britain of TTL 2009 will be VERY DIFFERENT and pretty much everywhere.
Here is a rough outline of what I am planning as far as early World War Two is concerned:
-The 16th of June 1940 Franco-British Union Treaty is signed.
-Mediterranean Theatre focus, the hunt for the Regia Marina, the end of the Quarta Sponda
-Consequences in Europe
-Consequences in Asia
Things are a little more vague after the first year of war, in particular there is a biggie:
Will Singapore Fall?
As far as post war is concerned I intend for Europe to be vastly different, the iron curtain will not be in the same place and not necessarily further east.
I do intend for the Franco-British to last beyond the war and the constitutional/political arrangements of the resulting beast will occupy a large place in the TL.
Anyway here is a little teaser:
Some says that history is predetermined and that it is only the work of underlying currents taking place over a long period of time. This however does not account for the most important event of the century, the Declaration of Anglo-French Unity signed on the 17th June 1940 in the small Breton town of Concarneau. Still, some will say that after centuries if not millennia of common history the lands of the British Isles and of France were bound to be part of the same nation and points out to the numerous occasions were this nearly happened during the Middle Ages among other times. In any case, a union of nations in the face of a common enemy was a first in the history of the world and a first which was very close from not happening at all.
It is during the afternoon and early evening of the 16th June 1940 that the fate of France was to be decided. We know for sure that then the French cabinet was divided between voices in favour of ending the war as soon as possible and voices pleading for a continuation of the war from North Africa. The Président du Conseil position was all but easy during that day, yet the man was not down yet as his first decision of firing the Chief of Staff Maxime Weygand showed. The proposal was accepted by 13 to 9 votes and what would subsequently known as the grand déménagement (the great move) put in action.
France had lost the battle but had not lost the war as the signatures of Paul Reynaud and Winston Churchill on the two page document showed.
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