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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: RI October 2024
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:53:46 -0800
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In article <lpt8n4F7c0eU1@mid.individual.net>,
 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:

> Here we are again, possibly less late than usual with books from October.
> As is traditional (and possibly required): The links below are Amazon
> affiliate ones which could potentially earn me something should you
> choose to buy through one.
> 
> ====
> 
> Acts of War: A World War II Alternative History
> (The Usurper's War Book 1)
> by James Young
> https://amzn.to/3UAZsmc
> 
> Collisions of the Damned: The Defense of the Dutch East Indies
> (The Usurper's War Book 2)
> by James Young
> https://amzn.to/3AryUx3
> 
> Here's the first two books of what I believe is to be an alt-hist
> WWII trilogy.
> 
> The jumping off point for this universe is that the British take
> out Hitler in a bombing raid on Berlin.  They had no idea where he
> was -- it was just one of those lucky accidents of war.  Or, in
> this case unlucky accidents of war.
> 
<SNIP>
> 
> So anyway, that's a long winded setup.  The actual action of these
> books is mainly centered on a dysfunctional Alabama family whose
> sons are all in the military, and whose daughter has escaped an
> unsuitable marriage by fleeing to Pearl Harbor.  There are also
> story-lines centering on an American ex-pat who has been flying for
> a Polish resistance squadron, and who is consequently in bad odor
> at home as a mercenary (the US being at peace with both Germany &
> Japan as the series starts), a battle cruiser first officer in the
> US Asiatic fleet, various Japanese notables and minor characters
> who come and go.
> 

"battle cruiser first officer in the US Asiatic fleet"?!

The US Navy did not have battle cruisers (the "Lexington" and "Saratoga" 
would had been, but that class was cancelled by the Washington Naval 
Treaty and those 2 ships were converted in Aircraft carriers). In fact, 
the biggest ship in the US Asiatic fleet in 1941 was the USS Houston 
(9195 tons displacement) which was classified as a heavy cruiser solely 
because of 8 inch gun main batteries (it was originally classified as a 
light cruise)

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com