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**hwood** · 04-13-2007, 04:21 PM

Originally posted by BeBro
I will never understand why people invest so much in what-iffies that are unprovable anyway.

Not that this should stop anyone

It's fascinating to speculate though.

What if Arminius had not defeated Varus ?

What if Rome had established a permanent large colony in Germania ?

You'd be a wine-quaffing Romance language speaking aesthete now....

I picked this up for £ 1.00 in a charity shop in Fulham:

This book is an excellent collection of chapters on a variety of military theatres in World War 2. Some of the stories are more plausible than the others -- the Japanese landing in the Persian Gulf struck me as the least likely -- but they were all thought-provoking. Could the Germans have conquered Moscow by concentrating on the Soviet capital? Or would the poor roads of Eastern Europe always have limited their pre-Barbarossa build-up in 1941 - and thus limited how far they could have got in that first campaigning season?

If the Germans had concentrated on the Mediterranean theatre, would they have driven the British out of Egypt? (Boris, mon oncle, nota bene)

Could the Allies have lost at D-Day? And could the Germans have got the A-Bomb first? History always seems inevitable. The skill of some of the writers in this book, shows that it isn't like that at all. The Hitler Options: Alternate Decisions of World War II (Greenhill Military Paperback) (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitler-Optio.../dp/1853673129

It's edited by Kenneth Macksey who also wrote 'Invasion', so it's more absorbing than some of the schlockier ' Alternate...' series, where Mahatma Gandhi is a guerilla, et cetera.

04-13-2007, 04:21 PM	#2
hwood Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 341 Senior Member	Originally posted by BeBro I will never understand why people invest so much in what-iffies that are unprovable anyway. Not that this should stop anyone It's fascinating to speculate though. What if Arminius had not defeated Varus ? What if Rome had established a permanent large colony in Germania ? You'd be a wine-quaffing Romance language speaking aesthete now.... I picked this up for £ 1.00 in a charity shop in Fulham: This book is an excellent collection of chapters on a variety of military theatres in World War 2. Some of the stories are more plausible than the others -- the Japanese landing in the Persian Gulf struck me as the least likely -- but they were all thought-provoking. Could the Germans have conquered Moscow by concentrating on the Soviet capital? Or would the poor roads of Eastern Europe always have limited their pre-Barbarossa build-up in 1941 - and thus limited how far they could have got in that first campaigning season? If the Germans had concentrated on the Mediterranean theatre, would they have driven the British out of Egypt? (Boris, mon oncle, nota bene) Could the Allies have lost at D-Day? And could the Germans have got the A-Bomb first? History always seems inevitable. The skill of some of the writers in this book, shows that it isn't like that at all. The Hitler Options: Alternate Decisions of World War II (Greenhill Military Paperback) (Paperback) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitler-Optio.../dp/1853673129 It's edited by Kenneth Macksey who also wrote 'Invasion', so it's more absorbing than some of the schlockier ' Alternate...' series, where Mahatma Gandhi is a guerilla, et cetera.
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