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[Jeremiah]

*beware, this is a long read*

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=65071

[Pandy]

that was a long read, took me damn near an hour and a half to read it all. Pretty good.

[3Dguy]

Very interesting read. Thank you for posting it. My Uncle was aboard the USS Barry during the crisis. He told me about using hand grenades to force a Soviet sub to surface. It's interesting to read what might have happened had the sub crew reacted differently.

[Pandy]

Yeah, I find these storys very interesting because of how things play out if one little detail was changed, how all of history be different.

[saturnin]

many thanks for post! :) i like what if scenarios,

I am reading: "Invasion: The German Invasion of England, July 1940" by Kenneth Macksey now

can anyone posts another link or recommends book based on "what if scenarios" I am mainly interested in WWII, sorry if there is already some "what if scenario thread", if not it should be

[Desertpilot]

many thanks for post! :) i like what if scenarios,

I am reading: "Invasion: The German Invasion of England, July 1940" by Kenneth Macksey now

can anyone posts another link or recommends book based on "what if scenarios" I am mainly interested in WWII, sorry if there is already some "what if scenario thread", if not it should be

Anything by Harry Turtledove. He has a series that starts with the US Civil War called Guns of the South, and an entire series on WWII alternate history.

GofS is in my opinion, his best so far. It's based on the "what if" of a mysterious person giving an AK-47 to the Confederates. Pretty cool read.

[saturnin]

thank you desertpilot

[IraGlacialis]

Anything by Harry Turtledove. He has a series that starts with the US Civil War called Guns of the South, and an entire series on WWII alternate history.
Guns of the South is a stand-alone book where the Confederates were given AK-47s by time-traveling aparthiedists.

There was however a series by him that is informally called the Timeline-191 series. That is where the Confederates didn't lose at Antietam and succesfully seceed. It continues on from there through WWII and is ongoing. Some plotlines including the US siding with the Central Powers (and winning) against the Confederades and the Allies during WWI, Mormon separatist suicide bombers, and Final Solution-like actions done towards blacks by the Confederate leadership.