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I guess the issue is that with Nazi Germany you have quite detailed plans of what they wanted to happen after their victory and a legitimate argument that their foreign policy from 1933 onwards was directed towards those goals. You could make a similar case for Italy (although I doubt there's...

There's quite a bit of edge on display and occasionally the sudden transistion from swashbuckling adventure to grimdark can be pretty jarring. It feels a bit exploitative, even moreso than you might expect from a book about the SS running Africa and although the main plot is pretty entertaining...

Their own economy could likely continue to muddle through at least until the noughties without Perestroika, this in turn would allow them to better help the Eastern Bloc weather the global debt crises. Without any effective reform this is likely to translate into a long-term decline in living...

Without the curtailing of economic support to the Eastern Bloc and the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika encouraging a mood of change it's unlikely there'll be the outbreak of protests and strikes in the late eighties to begin with. If anything Grishin, a hawk, would have made it clear that...

Serious Final Destination 5 vibes.

The notion of ginger addiction amongst Race soldiers being an analogue to the drug problems faced by many American Vietnam veterans was an eye-opener, hadn't thought about it in that way before!

One thing to note in relation to @SpanishSpy's review is that a lot of the contemporary conspiracy theories or Nazi apologia around Barbarossa being a pre-emptive strike is inspired by the writings of Viktor Suvorov who himself bases of a lot of his claims on the Soviet 'wunderwaffen' of the...

Nice choice for a PoD but one small thing to note is that Margo MacDonald would provide an Indy majority here presuming she holds her seat as per OTL, which the wikibox would seem to indicate.

Great review. I like how the design manages to appear quintessentially German but also thrown together, as if the logic of the Emergency Fighter Program had been applied to super heavy tanks.

Could the Crosstime Traffic series be considered a comment on the distinction between AH as a genre in itself and AH as a setting for other genres?

That works for me, glad to see you’re going ahead with this.

I think that certainly does go for a lot of Nazi victory AH but I can think of examples of it being done well in ways which justify the story being done in an AH setting. I don't think, for example, you could do Fatherland inside those twelve years. You could certainly do something about how...

You could argue that Stephen Root's character is an expy although only in a very loose sense. The problem with the show isn't how the Axis wins the war inasmuch as how the Axis won the war keeps changing whenever the plot requires it to, the same going for the characters and the setting.

There you go. I had been aware that the basic premise had previously been discussed but I didn't know anyone else had a book on the idea. Having a look at it now and the format seems quite interesting although it's a shame about all the parallelism.

I mean, he spied for the Reichswehr IOTL. If anything he was too successful.

Is that a general trend? I suppose it depends a lot on the format which is rarely cast iron. As @Gary Oswald says there are plenty of TLs which start with a small PoD long before the actual story begins but then there are those which aren't particularly linear like Green Antarctica (not my cup...

Meanwhile, at the treehouse,

The stuff relating to China is utterly silly and arguably everything outside CONUS should be taken with at least a pinch of salt but the American politics (and it is ultimately an American politics TL) are engaging and well written. I also think there's a charm in the very nature of the PoD...

I'd be up for restarting the Writers' Guild, I think the blog and forum go a long way in carrying out the initial aims but something more surgical couldn't hurt.

The 'MaoZeDonnell' quip was a bit daft in retrospect though.