Lots of pics and stuff to come, but first to bed and a good sleep after the last 25hrs in transit. Zzzzzz
11 November 2011
Le grand voyage
The Man Cavers have returned home after a great trip to Paris. Many thanks for all your well wishes!
Lots of pics and stuff to come, but first to bed and a good sleep after the last 25hrs in transit. Zzzzzz
Lots of pics and stuff to come, but first to bed and a good sleep after the last 25hrs in transit. Zzzzzz
04 November 2011
Je suis Australienne!
The Man Cave is on tour for the next week - zipping across to the other side of the world to visit Mssr Bonaparte's old stomping ground: Paris!SWMBO and The Lad will be accompanying me, with extra Husband points for it being our 16th wedding anniversary!
See you when we get back!
03 November 2011
02 November 2011
What If?
What
If?, edited by Robert
Cowley
Overall, this book is similar in style to "If the Allies had fallen" in that it is broad but shallow coverage for each alternative and what could come afterwards, but I quite enjoyed those sections of interest to me.
Another collection
of alternate 'What if' scenarios (or as the dustcover says "a collection of
counterfactual essays") this time across a range of timelines - from Antiquity
to the Cold War.
I must admit that
about half of them did not interest me too much, but some of those that
did:
- The Persians win
the naval battle of Salamis, 480BC
- The Romans win the
battle of Teutoburg Forest, 9AD
- The Spanish Armada
triumphs, 1588
- Napoleon wins at
Waterloo, 1815
- Alternate American
Civil War endings
- The Japanese trap
the US Pacific Fleet at Midway, 1942
Overall, this book is similar in style to "If the Allies had fallen" in that it is broad but shallow coverage for each alternative and what could come afterwards, but I quite enjoyed those sections of interest to me.
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