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  1. A Flooded Earth

    I forgot about that site. There's a load of good stuff on there.

  2. Did Pearl Harbor have to take place on December 7?

    8 is a lucky number in Japan and 4 is an unlucky number.

  3. A Good Old-Fashioned Future

    What a brilliant blog! BTW Ivan, I don't know if it's the sort of thing you'd be interested in, but I discovered an SF book on Amazon called Russian Spring by Norman Spinrad. It was written in 1991 and seems to be an FH in which Russia and America's roles are reversed - the US economy becomes...

  4. Challenge: African Imperialism

    I was thinking about this recently. How about a more advanced medieval Ethiopia which establishes trading links with the Byzantine Empire? Then have some violent barbarians smash Byzantium and Europe to pieces and the refugees flee to Ethiopia. Then an Ethiopian "renaissance" along with...

  5. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    See the pages on this site: Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century You might want to read the whole thing, rather than heading straight for the headline figures. There are a lot of ifs and buts when it comes to estimating the numbers of...

  6. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    Not that I've ever heard. For all their ignorance of the war, I think even the most ignorant are aware of Pearl Harbour. I have a question. Those of you that think that Japan is equally as morally culpable as Germany, do you also believe that Italy is equally as morally culpable as Germany...

  7. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    Wow! Well, that's good. I had the impression that Americans didn't learn much about Native Americans. Actually, no. :( I remember being a bit pissed off with the teacher once when something we were taught in A-level history (about the Russian Civil War) contradicted something we had been...

  8. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    I remember seeing on TV a film clip of a Japanese teacher during the occupation teaching "democratic values" to his school students. The teacher was just getting them to memorise and repeat phrases about the benefits of democracy, and the pupils were obediently chanting these phrases in unison...

  9. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    Does anyone have any views on the original post? I don't know much about the occupation, but I have the impression that after the war crimes trials, the US attitude was "Let's forget about the war now". Why was that?

  10. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    If you have the impression that they are taught that the US nuked Japan, without ANY context, you are wrong. The Japanese education system doesn't teach much about the war, but people are aware of the war in China, Pearl Harbour, and the Pacific War. And the general message taught in relation to...

  11. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    I said exactly that in my post! Would you like me to say it again? The average Japanese student isn't taught about Japanese war crimes. They are taught about the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They should be taught all about the war, and about what the Japanese did that the rest of the...

  12. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    BTW, Japan is not the only country where the Japanese role in WW2 is downplayed. In Britain, for every book or TV documentary about the war in Burma or the Pacific there are at least a hundred on Hitler's Germany or the war in Europe. I've never once seen a book or TV documentary about Japan's...

  13. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    People seem to have misunderstood my post. I thought my point was fairly clear, but obviously not. My opinion is that the Japanese regime of 1937-1945 was an evil one, and that the government and its military committed immoral acts: war crimes. However, I think that in the nature and scope...

  14. Japan forced to accept reality of its crimes

    Suppose that Germany had had no concentration camps or policies of extermination. Suppose that all of Europe outside Germany and the USSR had been colonised by countries far overseas with very different cultures who treated the Europeans as second-class citizens, and that consequently the...

  15. The NEW Our TimeLine Maps Thread!

    Thanks, I will do. In the meantime, here is a map of Africa just before the "scramble", if anyone's interested. And from Encarta, ethnic groups in Africa: West Africa East Africa Central Africa South Africa

  16. AH Challenge: France vs. Britain in 1930s

    According to a book I'm reading at the moment, British military planning in the 1920s assumed France would be the likely enemy. What concievable set of circumstances, with a POD no earlier than 1925, could lead to a war between France and Britain in the 1930s?

  17. WI no Blitzkrieg?

    What if, instead of invading Denmark, Norway, Belgium etc. in 1940 Hitler planned to do nothing but continue to build up the German military and make peace overtures to Britain and France? If Hitler had not simultaneously launched his invasion of Denmark and Norway, what would have happened...

  18. Vikings, Huns and Mongols, and WI muhammed had been named Sven?

    Mongols, Huns and Vikings by Hugh Kennedy. From one of the reviews on Amazon: "Hugh Kennedy's "Mongols, Huns & Vikings" is the latest installment of Casell's History of Warfare series, a multi-volume collection edited by the Britsh historian John Keegan. The book is a bit mistitled--Arabs...

  19. Underestimated countries

    Seconded. Lithuania is unjustly ignored in AH due to its being such an unimportant nation today.

  20. A not inconsiderable prime minister

    Is there any way in which John Major's premiership could have been less disappointing. Is there any way in which he could have progressed towards his stated goals of "a genuinely classless society", "opportunity for all", "back to basics" (by which he meant "self discipline . . . respect for the...
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