Review: A good if flawed read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
Do not get me wrong,read this book well worth a purchase.  However the author under estimates the British, he misunderstands Clement Atlee really seeing him as weak leader, when if anything he was deeply anti nazi and pro defending Britain to the last.  In this counterfactual a defeated Britain is forced into an uneasy peace with Hitler in 1943.  By 1950 Britain is politically weak and Halifax appeasing  views still to the fore in the coalition Cabinet.  In reality had Churchill resigned in 43, New elections would have been inevitable, Labour would have won and the Empire would have been long gone by 1950.  Halifax would have got nowhere near Downing street and a United socialist Britain would have had years to prepare for a Nazi invasion.  It's unlikely also that all of Hitler's gambles would have paid off, Barbarossa failed because Hitler was a poor practitioner and spectacular gambler, also Stalin.would never have allowed himself to be captured.