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Lenin stared hard at the empty bookshelf, the last few books tossed into the trunk in a hurry. When would he get a chance to return to Geneva? He hoped never, but given the bastard Germans he needed to make sure he kept his options open. Heavy handedly he slammed the trunk lid, the thud echoed...

Not decided, just seeing how the lie of the land goes. At present, here is a run down of the countries at the centre of the action: United Kingdom: Financially stable, just, emerged from the Great War with 20% of its reserves remaining. No debt spent funding the war. Ireland is very much...

English Historical Review In light of my ongoing research, the English Historical Review asked me for a piece on the primary sources I was uncovering as part of an ongoing series of article. There are plenty of academics who view the events of 1918 as symptomatic of the post Great War malaise...

I honestly don't know, though I do plan on writing up till at least 1938.

The border of Bohemia-Moravia is picturesque, green rolling fields, farms, and woods. Just short, I stopped at a rest stop for a coffee, and pulled my pad to find the folder of images I had stored for this moment. One-by-one images of shattered trees, broken houses, refugees fleeing in both...

This is the BSSR as of June 1918.

Sort of. IOTL the French were on the verge of breaking prior to the British assault at the Somme, and it was only the French begging that braught the Somme offensive forward into July 1916. The POD ITTL is that Hague held of the assault as he did not believe the British were prepared enough, and...

I thought that too, but Wilhelm's son Wilhelm had a son Wilhelm, so I though that the line of succession would pass to him rather than to his brother. Plus, for dramatic purposes a 12 year old child with an Austrian regent makes things more interesting if not entirely historically accurate.

Summer Nineteen Eighteen In the three weeks I have trawled through the archives, I had managed to get a clearer feeling of the panic which had gripped Austria in May/June nineteen eighteen. Nationalist soldiers loyal to only their generals held most of Austria, while Bohemia, Galicia...

Winter/Spring Nineteen Eighteen I stopped overnight in Innsbruck, taking my time in the morning to visit the Tyrol museum opened a couple of years back dedicated to exploring the history of the region. Though the German government and various charities has spent lavishly to make the exhibits...

If it talked it got sent to a gulag, if not, well they have ways.

Nineteen sixteen My great grandfather always used to say you could never trust a Frenchman, though he tended to be a bit courser than that after five pints. Bloody frogs, he would shout, stinking runaway cowards. Of course, being five or six at the time, I never really understood what he...

"In the morning mists of that fateful dawn, we stood on the edge of a darkness unknown since 1961. My father told me of that taste he had in his mouth as he awaited his orders, knowing full well the next phone call would mean life or death to them all. We sat on the tarmac, each second grinding...

East Germany was on a knife edge in 1989, as Honecker could have gone either way, but the Soviets prevented him from doing anything stupid. Romania was effectively outside Soviet control, was not a member of the Warsaw Pact, and the leadership was incredibly paranoid. The reason in OTL that...

Yes and know - I am just going to go with the flow of things, and see how it works out.