(Jaw crashes to ground)
what?
(pause)
wait, is this the one where Churchill got thrown out (and killed!) and replaced with some aristo-fascistic swine who decide to fight the Russians or something like that?
Chamberlain was still Prime Minister at this time and when his cancer developed to a point where he had to leave the government on grounds of health his chosen successor was Sir Horace Wilson who is quasi-fascist/right wing. And throughout mid 1940 to early 1941 the British and French fight the Soviets together (Germany leaves northern France which it had taken in 1938/1939 campaign but still occupies the Low Countries, Denmark and Norway) These books had potential and I already ordered Two Fronts months ago. I really like HT's books but i agree that this series is kinda bleh. Compared to his excellent Southern Victory/TL-191 series (my favorite) and the Worldwar/Colonization series this The War That Came Early is mediocre.
Maybe if the books in the series were an extra 150-200 pages with some better backstory/dialogue and such I think no one would really complain but he does seem to be lackluster about the series. I havent read two fronts yet so i wont rate it but this is how i rate the other books:
Hitler's War: 7/10 (interesting, good start)
West and East: 7.5/10 (series getting slightly better)
Big Switch: 7/10 (even though the Big Switch is plausible it's not very realistic and the British just kinda jump ship too quickly, i feel if the Big Switch was 150-200 pages longer with more detail etc it would have been better explained and fleshed out)
Coup D'Etat: 6/10 (idk, the book was good, but it wasn't that good and it didn't make up for the shortcomings in the Big Switch).
Harry Turledove is my second favorite author, next to George R.R. Martin, but he really should have made The War That Came Early series better in terms of length, story, characters are fine, and overall big picture needed improvement