Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions Of World War II (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
This collection of ten counterfactuals generally satisfies, but is best appreciated by the most serious students of the military arts. The authors are predominantly military historians and analysts, and they're playing to their bench. The real trick is spotting the point of divergence in each case. I think the standout essay is the 9th, where the Germans develop an atomic bomb first, and wherein Werner Heisenberg's internal conflicts take center stage. The least plausible is the 1st, where a young Hitler is molded into a non-anti-Semitic naval officer who comes into the 1930s with sufficient tools to defeat England.
I felt "Third Reich Victorious" was a bit uneven. For a book focused on exploring historically plausible scenarios of German victory some of the ideas were just a bit too far fetched. I thought the best examinations of how history could have taken a different turn were the ones based on tactical turning-points in battlefield situations as opposed to ones where Hitler had a major shift in his strategic thinking. Still, "Third Reich Victorious" was a fascinating book full of food for thought how history could have been so dramatically different.
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