Happy Release Day!
THOSE IN PERIL, a fantastic naval-themed military alternate history short story collection, with new fiction from me is out today! Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NPG7QFW
My story is "A Safe Wartime Posting." It's a about a WWI fight everyone has spent weeks and weeks on in high school history classes and already knows everything about:
The Kamerun and German Defense of the Port of Doula in West Afrika!
Oh wait. Maybe it didn't make it into your particular history class. But it did happen, if not quite the way I wrote it.
What if Woodrow Wilson, the United States presidential re-election winner in part for "He Kept Us Out of the War," had his stroke just a couple years earlier?
And what if his vice president had a nephew who the family wanted to set up for a post-service political career without exposing him to the risks of naval escort duty?
Africa should be full of nice safe places to wait out the European war, don't you think? After all, the colonial powers even signed an agreement in advance promising each other not spread the war to the southern continent.
Europeans wouldn't break a treaty involving Africa, would they? And even if they did, there'd be no politically connected observers around to notice, right?
THOSE IN PERIL, a fantastic naval-themed military alternate history short story collection, with new fiction from me is out today! Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NPG7QFW
My story is "A Safe Wartime Posting." It's a about a WWI fight everyone has spent weeks and weeks on in high school history classes and already knows everything about:
The Kamerun and German Defense of the Port of Doula in West Afrika!
Oh wait. Maybe it didn't make it into your particular history class. But it did happen, if not quite the way I wrote it.
What if Woodrow Wilson, the United States presidential re-election winner in part for "He Kept Us Out of the War," had his stroke just a couple years earlier?
And what if his vice president had a nephew who the family wanted to set up for a post-service political career without exposing him to the risks of naval escort duty?
Africa should be full of nice safe places to wait out the European war, don't you think? After all, the colonial powers even signed an agreement in advance promising each other not spread the war to the southern continent.
Europeans wouldn't break a treaty involving Africa, would they? And even if they did, there'd be no politically connected observers around to notice, right?
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