Actually Hitler really believed he could pull off Sealion. That he couldn't is a lot more obvious in hindsight than at the time, though by the same token a failed German invasion of Britain would have *really* ruptured German delusions of invincibility long before the Battle of Moscow did.
I've read a lot of his works. The main thing he's done for the AH genre is quantity which has not really a lot of quality to call his own, all his works replicate the US Civil War, World War II, or both at once.
It's not been done as a novel though there have been a couple of takes on it as Internet timelines. Essentially in the Song Empire the Chinese were on the verge of an industrial revolution, and Genghis Khan's defeat of the Song ended that. If China industrializes instead due to say, Genghis having an unfortunate accident in a power squabble among the Mongols the Chinese were already the most "modern" state at that time. With an industrial economy they would not have been a small island limited in manpower, they would have been much more something like an autocratic USA.
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I've read a lot of his works. The main thing he's done for the AH genre is quantity which has not really a lot of quality to call his own, all his works replicate the US Civil War, World War II, or both at once.
It's not been done as a novel though there have been a couple of takes on it as Internet timelines. Essentially in the Song Empire the Chinese were on the verge of an industrial revolution, and Genghis Khan's defeat of the Song ended that. If China industrializes instead due to say, Genghis having an unfortunate accident in a power squabble among the Mongols the Chinese were already the most "modern" state at that time. With an industrial economy they would not have been a small island limited in manpower, they would have been much more something like an autocratic USA.