Ho Colonel,
Yes indeed, I finished reading the
Peshwar Lancers some time ago. I read it fast, as I enjoyed it. However, after completing it and reflecting a bit ths states that the author had survive made me wonder. The USA was a growing worls power arrounf the end of the 19th century. It had a fine battle fleet and a huge merchant navy. It could well have moved a moog many of the citizens south into the Carribean Islands, Mexico, and Central America. Having Russia of all nations survove the mini-ice age and the USA not pull through is absolutely preposterous.
Italy and Greece would also likely have been able to squeek through, not become vassals of the "Sick Old Man of Europe," Turkey. the Turks would have been the main target of Tsarist Russian migration to a warmer clime.
Japan, with a building fleet, might well have gotten through the disaster, of course.
Ah well, ain't historical might-have-beens fun?!
Gary