ChrisNuttall
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I’ve been giving a lot of thought, recently, to rewriting the Second Chance series, an ISOT book based around Great Britain of ‘now’ being sent back in time to 1940 and finding itself at war with Nazi Germany. However, how would this go?
For starters, Britain is suddenly cut off from everything that came from overseas, from American weapons to European medicines. How badly are things going to be disrupted? How much can Britain produce on her own?
Obviously, man for man, the British military will be vastly superior to the Nazi War Machine. However, that won’t last. High-intensity war will drain the country’s reserves very quickly. (For example, Britain does not have a large supply of cruise missiles. The highest estimate I’ve seen of current stocks is 150. That’s 150 destroyed targets in Germany, but those are just the tip of the iceberg.) Britain could be in the same position as Atvar - superior tech, but very limited supplies.
I don’t see modern-day Britain dropping nukes, unless things are truly desperate.
Socially, there will be other problems. Britain (now) does not have an empire, nor many establishments outside the Home Islands. 1940s Britain does. What will happen when modern-day Britain realises it rules India? Will it just let India go? What about Palestine? Egypt? The Suez Canal? I had Saudi Arabia occupied during the original storyline, at least partly to head off Islamic Terrorism again. And how will the 1940s British react to modern-day Britain? Awe? Horror? Both?
How will the rest of the world react?
Chris
For starters, Britain is suddenly cut off from everything that came from overseas, from American weapons to European medicines. How badly are things going to be disrupted? How much can Britain produce on her own?
Obviously, man for man, the British military will be vastly superior to the Nazi War Machine. However, that won’t last. High-intensity war will drain the country’s reserves very quickly. (For example, Britain does not have a large supply of cruise missiles. The highest estimate I’ve seen of current stocks is 150. That’s 150 destroyed targets in Germany, but those are just the tip of the iceberg.) Britain could be in the same position as Atvar - superior tech, but very limited supplies.
I don’t see modern-day Britain dropping nukes, unless things are truly desperate.
Socially, there will be other problems. Britain (now) does not have an empire, nor many establishments outside the Home Islands. 1940s Britain does. What will happen when modern-day Britain realises it rules India? Will it just let India go? What about Palestine? Egypt? The Suez Canal? I had Saudi Arabia occupied during the original storyline, at least partly to head off Islamic Terrorism again. And how will the 1940s British react to modern-day Britain? Awe? Horror? Both?
How will the rest of the world react?
Chris