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Dreams from the Dark Years: Fool's Mate
By Paul Hynes. French soldiers seizing Lauterbach in their invasion of Germany. Photograph taken by Press Agency staff and in Imperial War Museum records, believed public domain; image courtesy wikimedia commons. The 2001 film The Pianist  contains many disturbing scenes but there is one at the very beginning which sticks out for this series. It involves the Jewish Szpilman family in Warsaw on the 3rd of September, 1939, three days into the German invasion of Poland. The fami
Nov 189 min read
Dreams from the Dark Years: Strange Defeat
By Paul Hynes. A German soldier walks through the ruins after the siege of Calais, a photo taken by the Wehrmacht itself. Picture...
Sep 1915 min read
Dreams from the Dark Years: Twilight
By Paul Hynes. Jacques Guiaud's 1871 painting of the crowds outside the last sitting of the monarchy's Corps Législatif, at the dawn of...
Aug 1913 min read
Dreams from the Dark Years: Aperitif
By Paul Hynes. "The Earth, it does not lie": a Vichy propaganda poster of a grateful farmer greeting Petain, presenting him as a man...
Aug 55 min read
Vignette: Guilty Clem
By Paul Hynes. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Mar 286 min read
Review - Dominion
Review by Paul Hynes The original hardcover, image courtesy Amazon There is a famous passage within Harlan Ellison’s much loved short...
Feb 410 min read
Interview: Paul Hynes
Questions by Gary Oswald Hello and thanks so much for talking to us. First of all, how did you get into Alternate History and what...
Jul 21, 20238 min read
Rolls
By Paul Hynes On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Nov 5, 20218 min read
What Went Down
By Paul Hynes On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Feb 6, 202110 min read
Point of No Return
By Paul Hynes On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Sep 15, 202015 min read
When the World Held its Breath: Altona
By Paul Hynes On the 14th of June, 1941 German commanders amassing their forces on the Soviet border received the message 'Dortmund'. The...
Apr 13, 201910 min read
When The World Held Its Breath: First Lightning
By Paul Hynes For Germans awaking on the Sunday morning of June 22nd, 1941, the news that their country was at war with the Soviet Union...
Mar 30, 20198 min read
When The World Held Its Breath: Fixed Bayonets
By Paul Hynes As Barbarossa began, Soviet troops at the front were often asleep. When the Germans struck their stocks of ammunition and...
Mar 16, 20197 min read
When The World Held Its Breath: Divide And Conquer
By Paul Hynes "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crumbling down" was Adolf Hitler's reassurance...
Mar 2, 20196 min read
When The World Held Its Breath: Japan Strikes North
By Paul Hynes What if Japan had joined Barbarossa in the Summer of 1941? It's a question that's interested many and even puzzled a few...
Feb 16, 20196 min read
When The World Held Its Breath : The "What Ifs" of Operation Barbarossa
By Paul Hynes "The world will hold its breath!" is the reaction Adolf Hitler promised when planning the most ambitious conquest of the...
Feb 2, 201910 min read
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