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Minor but actually quite notable news: Harry Turtledove has shaved off his beard. He had had it since 1969.

Maybe it's the Napoleonic equivalent of 'okay okay but if Sea Lion had worked...', but a related question that came to mind for me the other day was whether there's any good thought given to how a victorious (properly victorious, as in the nations of Europe just stop doing Coalitions to stop him...

I was gonna say, as far as I know I have not turned this off.

I agree that a meaningful thing that lasts isn’t possible, but one of the options for temporary stuff that hasn’t been mentioned is coalition governments in dominant party systems. It doesn’t seem impossible (maybe people who know more about the specific countries will tell me it is) that the...

Much to think about here!

Discuss these great new releases here.

Thanks for this report from a very interesting space indeed, @SpanishSpy. I’ve been planning a trip to the states - including Chicago - for some years, and Covid permitting I will see what I will do about attending in person at some stage.

My father-out-law was delighted to get volume iii for his birthday - excitedly described it to his wife as “it’s about a different WWII, there’s a lot of naval stuff, very good”. I don’t mean to profile Nick’s readers, but if you grew one in a lab…

Absolutely tremendous. Many, many congratulations to @M_Kresal, and also to @Jared for editing the collection as well. Great work.

Seems to be okay now?

Apparently their support person has just fixed this up. It may take a little while to update.

I can talk to our hosting company.

Congratulations, @Jophiel!

It’s the anniversary of the Hendaye talks today. Franco’s not going to swing the war to Germany’s favour, and if the Hendaye demands are remotely met, Hitler may end up with an even worse supply situation and lose even quicker. They probably weren’t going to be able to even take Gibraltar. But...

I have that at my dad's house somewhere, I think.