Re: [OT] Invading America
From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:29:31 -0700
Subject: Re: [OT] Invading America
>From: John Sowerby <sowerbyj@fiu.edu>
>One set of ideas I do like is from Harry Turtledove. In a world where
the
>CSA won at Antietam, and then won again 10 years later with the aid of
the
>French and British, the Great War opens out on the US continent with
the
>USA fighting with the Germans / Austrians, and the CSA alongside the
>British and French.
Given the number of German immigrants in the North, and the British
cultural
heritage of the South, I find that culturally plausible but politically
distasteful. Of course being pro-Germany in WWI doesn't rankle me quite
the
way it would in WWII.
3B^2
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