re: #514 austin_blue

The Vienna Boys Choir as the New York Irish division humping down the road into the first engagement with the Rebs with automatic rifles at Chancellorsville. Death of the innocents. Sasha Baron Cohen as Hooker. Lucky Luciano as Thomas Jackson (He lives this time!)

Turtledove does interesting stuff. His alternate history books are fascinating, and at this point they are *all* alternate history.

The Man With the Iron Heart was especially interesting. Reinhard Heidrich survives his assassination attempt in Prague and leads a Nazi guerrilla movement postwar. Fairly well done and a decent look at how such a war at a different time in our history might have looked.

(The Nazi bastard is killed in the end, but it doesn’t turn out very well even so. I don’t remember if Patton survives, but I think he does.)