Search results

  1. History Learner

    What is the worst alternate history you’ve ever read? (Pre-1900)

    Why then is everyone, from FDR on down, convinced of the opposite then? Are they stupid or, perhaps, they are right in their views? The Victory Plan of 1941 was specifically written to be the Anglo-American War Plan in the case of a Soviet collapse, and the conclusions they reached further...
  2. History Learner

    What is the worst alternate history you’ve ever read? (Pre-1900)

    The entirety of the U.S. political and military establishment disagree, as I've extensively cited now. The U.S. did not have the manpower or the industrial capacity to grind down a Nazi Germany free of the Eastern Front and with the strategic depth of resources granted by such a victory. As for...
  3. History Learner

    What is the worst alternate history you’ve ever read? (Pre-1900)

    I agree few-if any-wanted to directly side with Germany but such wasn't my argument. Rather, my position is that the overwhelming evidence is that the vast majority of Americans weren't interested in the European War and such could translate into a peace movement; it's also, in a way, academic...
  4. History Learner

    What is the worst alternate history you’ve ever read? (Pre-1900)

    I think this ties into a general gripe of mine, in that it seems most authors assume our current Liberal (I use the term in the general sense, not the American context) world order was inevitable with its associated political, economic and culture effects. Even just a century or so ago, it...
  5. History Learner

    What is the worst alternate history you’ve ever read? (Pre-1900)

    Germany winning WWII is actually fairly easy and straight forward, so I don't understand why it's often considered so impossible. I personally lay the blame on YouTube amateur historians, who the actual historians have been butting up against in recent years for the former's bad takes. The...
Top