Have you ever heard of the book called If The Allies Had Fallen? It examines many what ifs of World War 2, with all of them very grounded in reality. A lot of the chapters are written very differently, from basically scholarly analysis to what the history books would have said had the timeline changed in the way described. If you had read the book, what do you think? Thank you!
The Moscow Option - alternate History book
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http://www.amazon.com/Moscow-Option-David-Downing/dp/185367463X
Has anyone read it? I just finished this book and it was quite a nice read. Here’s what happens to the Axis.
SPOILERS
- Hitler’s plane crashes during August 1941 after a visit to the Russian front and he’s left in a coma. The German Army is given a free reign regarding Barbarossa and it is decided to focus on taking Moscow instead of switching the Panzers to help take Ukraine (as it happens)
- Moscow falls in September, together with Leningrad. Before the fall Stalin orders the Red Army to fall back and to rebuild the war industries in the Urals, bidding time and space. The German army then ceases operations for the winter.
- It is decided to reinforce Rommel in Africa, so Operation Herkules proceeds and takes Malta. After being reinforced with an additional Panzer corps Rommel then takes Egypt but the British army retreats to Sudan and Palestine.
- Japan strikes at Pearl and before the Midway operation it realizes that its codes have been compromised by the Allies. Yamamoto then uses this knowledge to cancel the Coral Sea operation and to trap and sink 4 US carriers at Midway, losing only 1.
- Meanwhile Hitler awakes from its coma and… (read the book :))
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That sounds awesome!
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When Hitler awakes from his coma his generals most likely declare him incompetent and have him put in some institution, allowing Germany to win the war.
Either that or he has them all shot for not following his agenda and once again the axis lose. -
http://www.amazon.com/Moscow-Option-David-Downing/dp/185367463X
Has anyone read it? I just finished this book and it was quite a nice read. Here’s what happens to the Axis.
SPOILERS
- Hitler’s plane crashes during August 1941 after a visit to the Russian front and he’s left in a coma. The German Army is given a free reign regarding Barbarossa and it is decided to focus on taking Moscow instead of switching the Panzers to help take Ukraine (as it happens)
- Moscow falls in September, together with Leningrad. Before the fall Stalin orders the Red Army to fall back and to rebuild the war industries in the Urals, bidding time and space. The German army then ceases operations for the winter.
- It is decided to reinforce Rommel in Africa, so Operation Herkules proceeds and takes Malta. After being reinforced with an additional Panzer corps Rommel then takes Egypt but the British army retreats to Sudan and Palestine.
- Japan strikes at Pearl and before the Midway operation it realizes that its codes have been compromised by the Allies. Yamamoto then uses this knowledge to cancel the Coral Sea operation and to trap and sink 4 US carriers at Midway, losing only 1.
- Meanwhile Hitler awakes from its coma and… (read the book :))
Sounds like a nice read.
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@WILD:
When Hitler awakes from his coma his generals most likely declare him incompetent and have him put in some institution, allowing Germany to win the war.
Either that or he has them all shot for not following his agenda and once again the axis lose.Hitler had a personality which resulted in that no German general could give even the vaguest form of criticism to Hitler, or they’d be fired immediately
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Ready, aim, your fired.
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@WILD:
When Hitler awakes from his coma his generals most likely declare him incompetent and have him put in some institution, allowing Germany to win the war.
Either that or he has them all shot for not following his agenda and once again the axis lose.I can hear him allready yellin’!!!
Oh those do no goods shoot em ,imediatly shoot em…
I should have taking care of em like Stalin did w. his Generals… lol…ha ha ha
Bohemian private!!!-Boehmischer Gefreiter…lach
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