Wow, that sounds really interesting. Going straight on my list. Normally the world wars as subjects for fiction turn me right off, but I'm a sucker for counterfactuals.

Incidentally, two of the essays in the very interesting counterfactual history collection Virtual history, edited by Niall Ferguson, explore similar territory: 'Hitler's England' by Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson looks at various possibilities including a peace in 1941, before concentrating on the idea of German invasion of Britain in May 1940 and going into some scary detail about the British plans for that event (including filling London with un-uniformed guerilla soldiers and effectively turning the entire city into a bear-pit designed to swallow up as much German manpower as possible -

I really must read some Priest. I say this everytime I read a review of yours but I never get round to it...

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... as much German manpower as possible - [shudder]). And Michael Burleigh's 'Nazi Europe' considers the consequences of German success on the eastern front, taking a somewhat less optimistic view of western Europe's chances in such a case.

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Um. Yes. The comment-preview machinery isn't quite as clever as the comment post machinery. In general, though, with HTML you want to avoid angle brackets because they're so easily mistaken for the start of a tag. In any case I've added an issue for it...