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TIME'S DEFENSE The meeting of North Shore Military Academy officialdom was crowded with politicians, military, business types, even a couple scientists...

All Along The Watchtower The SALVADORAN REVOLUTION(1970-72) was a civil war that erupted in El Salvador in the late spring of 1970...

The "Hero of Lienz" defies the Soviet Union and risks everything - by disregarding a demand from Stalin at the Yalta Conference, instead honouring a pledge from the British Army.

After issuing an apology for the role played in the abominable African slave trade, a radicalised General Synod takes extreme action to cleanse the Church of England by removing Queen Elizabeth I from Westminister Abbey.

In "Great Betrayal" trust between members of the British Government abrogates the principle of No Independence Before Majority African Rule.

Hell on Earth Part 2 Soon after the advance parties for the first American relief convoy reached Mexico City, it became clear that things had fallen apart...

In "Byzantium" we wonder what if T.E. Lawrence's epic adventures in Arabia were just adventures?

Disbanded What if the office of Vice-President was disbanded because of Dick Cheney's abuse of power?

Barack Obama Story What if Barack Obama's father survived his 1982 car crash in Kenya?

"Joe the Plumber" is credit crunched after the American dream goes wrong?.

An Empire Reborn Part 11 In light of this communist threat we must respond so that we may protect the people of Greece from the Marxist plague...

Washington, Banzai Part 2 Tamagura’s original sorrow over the violent showdown between the pro-gun and anti-gun factions in his colony...

Churchill's heart attack in the White House clears the way for the British Government to "Quit India" in 1942

Gasping For Air Part 3 Australian Liberal Party leader John Howard today reiterated his controversial demand for the expulsion of all foreign refugees...

In Peace City One, we explore a number of ideas from famous pacifists such as John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut and Isaac Asimov.

Imshallah Part 6 The main topic of the Iraq Study Group’s first official report to the White House was an analysis of...

In Clinton's Transition Plan, Hillary announced a ruthless personnel change - her husband, former President Bill Clinton is "let go".

Final Insurance What if Ted Kennedy's brain tumour was induced by the CIA?

Beset by terrorism, ravaged by climate change, and ruled by a Christian military dictatorship "America is born again".

Full-Court Press Part 8 The Jerry Lucas trade hit Oilers fans like a punch in the stomach...

Did the wickedness of British and the former Rhodesian authorities actually prevent a teacher called Robert Gabriel Mugabe from becoming an angel of democracy in southern africa?

Year of the Cat Part 5 When Fred Shero’s Rangers took the ice at Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum for Game 1 of their Stanley Cup semifinals...

How better can the recent crisis in English cricket by summed up than by the architects mantra "form follows function".

Year of the Cat Part 6 Madison Square Garden was packed to the rooftop when the Jaguars came to the Big Apple for Game 3 of their Stanley Cup semifinal...

An Empire Reborn Part 9 Soviet propaganda in response to the Woodstock massacre condemns the United States...

You May Fire When Ready Part 3 To say all hell broke loose after the first IDF nuclear strikes on Egypt and Syria would be an absurd understatement...

In "Out of the Quagmire" we imagine Dick Cheney - the skeptical dove from 1990 - is propelled into the White House pledged to withdraw America from Iraq.

A Chacun Son Boche Part 8 When the Second World War began in September of 1938, British troops had marched off to battle whistling...

Red Coronation Day in Paris What if de Gaulle's insistence on liberating Paris his way lead to catastrophic consequences for post-war Europe?

What if the "Second Plot" against JFK succeeded and a guilty-looking Oswald landed in Havana?

Murder Was The Case Part 2 The enemies of our glorious British Social Republic, in particular the so-called United Kingdom of America and Canada...

With the Axis Powers victorious in North Africa we explore the terrifying possibility that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem oversees the Final Phase of the Final Solution, in the Holy Land itself. And yet what if these radically altered events still climax with "Al Nakba" (the Catastrophe) for the Palestinian people?

I Shot The Sheriff He was one of the most infamous assassins in American history, and the subject of a six-week-long pursuit...

Jail to the Chief What if Richard Nixon's stubborn refusal to resign was disregarded by The Watchmen (©; 1987, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons)?

TIME IS NOT ALONE We seem to have screwed up this election.  The results leave us with the weakest influence on Congress since 1820...

A dedicated student of warfare makes the most of his "Gap Years".

Robison Doesn’t Buy the St. Louis Baseball Team Frank Robison missed the news one day, and changed baseball history...

What if Benjamin Franklin was successful in his appeal to the colonial delegates at the 1754 Albany Congress to "Join or Die" a Grand Council. Two hundred and fifty years after they sign the Plan of Union, a new President-General is presented to them.

In "Hanoi Horror" a bitter and mistaken President McCain wrecks his revenge.

Pitiless Fate Part 3 All hell seemed to break loose after Stefan Panier was shot...

"The Blackwater Incident" raises some frightening ethical questions for the battlefield of the future.

Full-Court Press Part 7 Whatever else one might say about the Oilers’ first decade in Houston, one certainly couldn’t complain it had been boring...

In "the Business Plot Unravels" socialist America lives to regret the overthrow of the Wall Street elite who seized power from FDR.

Secret Invasion

Comic Review

Bugged Part 2 Amazement and disbelief fought for control of Marvin Drenk’s voice; the fight ended in a time-limit draw...

An Empire Reborn Part 10 Four students are killed by the National Guard at an antiwar demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio....

In Lawn Ornaments, we ask the question - What if the Governor General had refused to prorogue the Canadian Parliament?

A House Divided Part 2 One year to the day after the Southern states had commenced their boycott of the United States Congress...

In "Payback for the Straight-shooters" Huey Long attempts to shape his own socialist agenda by ruthlessly exploiting the 1934 Business Plot against FDR.

In "Regime Change" a leader's grip on power is disrupted, with unexpected results.

Song of Peace What if Yitzhak Rabin survived the triple assassination attempt in Tel Aviv and the entire system of government collapses as predicated by the 'patsy', Yigal Amir?

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 11 Like Germany, Denmark was officially neutral in the Anglo-American war...

Australia 2048 If you weren’t consciously searching for it, or didn’t know where it was already, you might have walked right past it...

Every Man a King In "Every Man a King" we explore the unexpectedly disasterous consequences of the abolition of the Federal Reserve...

Obituary: Erwin Rommel, 1891-1977 Erwin Rommel, the former Wehrmacht field marshal who defected to the Allies following the assassination of Adolf Hitler and later served as defence minister...

Midnight at the Ambassador Hotel In "Midnight at the Ambassador Hotel", Steve Payne, Chris Oakley & Eric Lipps wonder what might have happened if Robert F. Kennedy had spoken out against the treatment of the Palestinian nation by the state of Israel, concluding that perhaps his assassin might have been radically changed in this altered reality...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 19 "We have a problem...our number two oxygen tank has failed." Those words put a chill in Soviet ground controllers...

Naked Aggression Instead of a mild heart attack at the White House, the crushing stress of the sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales kills Churchill - forcing Britain to quit India, with positive results for the long term future of the subcontinent in our story Naked Aggression...

Not Cricket In "Not Cricket" we hear the distant echoes of empire in the tragic Mumbai bombings...

Call To Arms Part 2 BBC-TV broadcasts a second investigative report on the charge that one of Irish prime minister Sean Lemass’ senior cabinet members is a covert FUA sympathizer...

Turning Point In "Turning Point", we ask what if "the catastrophe" of 1948 had been for the Jews, and Yasser Arafat died in his lavish presidential compound at Ramallah in 2004?

Gasping For Air Part 2 4 DEAD IN SOUTH KOREA FROM HRV VIRUS; HEALTH OFFICIALS IN CANBERRA REVIEWING EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS...

A Quick Business Trip In "A Quick Business Trip" Kennedy survives Dallas only to escalate the Vietnam War...

Enemies at the Gate Whoever controls Berlin, it is said, controls Europe-- and seldom was that maxim more thoroughly tested than in the Berlin crisis...

Evil conspiracies In "Evil conspiracies", we ask what if the Great Crocodile PW Botha had punished his successor FW de Klerk for seizing the Presidency, leading the Republic of South Africa on a very different "Last Trek and New Beginning"...

An Empire Reborn Part 8 After decades of faithful service, Dino Grandi retires from public life and resigns his post as President of Chamber of Fasci and Corporations...

Sudden Death When former NFL running back and Hollywood star O.J. Simpson was arrested on charges of murdering his ex-wife Nicole...

Nixon Appoints Irish Ambassador In "Nixon Appoints Irish Ambassador" Gerry Shannon shares a wonderful tale of hope from the island of Ireland...

Shaken, Not Stirred Part 3 Just over a month after "Wolf at the Door" was first broadcast on ABC, Quinn Martin was in his production offices overseeing final edits for...

Out of the Box In "Out of the Box" we explore the worst fears of the UN Special Commission for Iraq (UNSCOM) from the late 1990s...

Bases Loaded Part 2 The Polo Grounds were packed like a sardine can on the day of the first game of the 1936 World Series...

Imshallah  Part 5 March 9^th, 1984 was a day of celebration throughout the Arab world...

Year of the Cat Part 4 Those who remembered the ferocity of the Jaguars’ clashes with the Flyers during the 1978-79 NHL regular season...

O Untimely Death When the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, the collapse stirred a glimmer of hope that the threat of global nuclear war...

Honest Dollar In "Honest Dollar", a fifty-year old plot to destroy American's freedom is foiled in Dallas.

Full-Court Press Part 6 As Wes Unseld adjusted to the rhythms of the Houston Oilers’ offense, he and Willie Naulls would become a formidable scoring tandem...

Aux Etoiles! For most of the first fifteen years of the history of space exploration, manned space travel was the exclusive province of...

Alternate Elections I’m sure many of the people who frequent this site are familiar with the anthology Alternate Presidents, which depicts a number of people becoming President of the United States...

Gasping For Air The Vietnamese national health ministry reported today that two fishermen were admitted to a Haiphong hospital early this morning...

An Empire Reborn Part 7 May 6^th 1968 School shutdowns spread throughout France with High School students now participating in the protests...

Imshallah Part 4 The Arab campaign to win control of metropolitan Tehran may have been the most important military engagement around a national capital since...

Full-Court Press Part 5 On the eve of the start of his second season as Oilers head coach, Tom Marshall held a team meeting...

And The Lion Shall Lie Down With The Lamb It was a short but catastrophic war that touched all of Asia and left much of it forever uninhabitable...

Dropping in to Darfur John McCain takes up the Blackwater CEO suggestion to drop a brigade of private security contractors into Darfur...

Year of the Cat Part 3 Vancouver head coach Harry Neale wasn’t looking forward to the Canucks’ first-round series with Jacksonville...

Necklaced What if an evil worse than apartheid triumphed in South Africa? Read Necklaced...

Party of War The Party of War neo-conservatives topple Saddam in 1991, but they find Kim Il Jong a tougher nut to crack in 2003...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 18 While the budding Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union may have given added incentive for rocket science...

A French Industrial Revolution By and large, the tendency in the historiography (particularly the sort represented by Walter Russell Mead's recent...

Call To Arms Eamon de Valera, prime minister of Ireland since the modern Irish Free State was founded in 1922...

An Empire Reborn Part 6 The United Kingdom closes military bases in Malaysia and Singapore in order to concentrate more military forces against...

Pitiless Fate Part 2 It was just after 12 noon Berlin time on December 8^th when German chancellor Georg Michaelis was informed of the mutiny...

Death of the Goat On 26 March 1945 Britain's first Socialist Prime Minister, David Lloyd George died in Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy. He was eighty-two years old...

You May Fire When Ready Part 2 As soon as it was officially confirmed that Arab ground and air forces had attacked Israel...

Year of the Cat Part 2 Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum was standing room only when the Jaguars took the ice on...

Murder Was The Case To understand the world-historical chain of events which eventually led to the downfall of the tyrannical monarchy that once oppressed the English peoples, it is important to recall...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 17 The respective approaches taken by the United States and the Soviet Union towards the quest to put a human being in space...

An Empire Reborn Part 5 In response to the ongoing blockades of Swaziland and Lesotho, Great Britain has ordered the Royal Navy to establish a counter-blockade...

Not One Step Back Had a wiser man than Prince Charles Edward Stuart been in command of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion...

Walking a straight line in a crooked world On August 4th 1961 future world statesman Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii...

If They Mean To Have A War Of all the mistakes Adolf Hitler made during the Second World War, perhaps his most deadly...

What Hath God Wrought The year 1789 witnessed three of the most significant events in the history of the Western world...

Imshallah Part 3 The suicide squads’ failure to turn the tide of the Iran-Iraq war back in Tehran’s favor...

Full-Court Press Part 4 As anyone who’d been following the Oilers’ tenure in Houston since 1957 could have told him...

Scarface He shook up the sports world as few men had before him or would after him. He was loved by millions of people...

Bases Loaded William Randolph Hearst originally got his start in the American business world selling newspapers...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 7 The loss of Warsaw was a bitter pill for the Polish people and their government to swallow...

An Office In Tatters To call this a dark hour in our nation’s history hardly even pretends to scratch the surface of the disgrace ...

Game Reviews: Battlefield Cuba The wait is finally over--Battlefield Cuba, the long-anticipated second chapter  of Colossus Games’ Cold War...

One Day On Mars

Book Review

Starship Troopers 3

Movie Review

The Final Season

Dr Who Review

Sidewise, Side Foolish IV

The 5 Best and 5 Worst AH Authors Chris Oakley Has Ever Read

On The Air In the fall of 1938, as Europe teetered on the brink of war, a full-fledged blood feud was already underway between two...

Been Winning So Long, I've Lost It So we are a schizophrenic culture of sorts, a nation of amateurs that can almost magically transform itself into a culture of professional killers...

O Tempora, O Mores Come September of 2008, six decades will have passed since Lance Sharkey’s dream of a Communist Australia died in a torrent of gunfire outside Parliament House...

An Empire Reborn Part 4 Conservatives sweep the elections in Britain as voters reject the Labour party for their mishandling of the situation in Africa. Edward Heath, the new Prime Minister calls for...

You May Fire When Ready In the aftermath of their defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War against Israel, the Arab nations sought new ways of taking the battle to the Jewish state...

Shaken, Not Stirred Part 2 Diana Rigg seemed to have been tailor-made for the role of Tanya Onatova. The British actress radiated a cool sensuality that perfectly fit the attractive...

From Allegheny To Flatbush To Hollywood When J.P. Morgan founded the American League in 1882, he had intended that Pittsburgh should be home to one of the new league’s...

Hitting Back: The Autobiography

Book Review

The Man With The Iron Heart

Book Review

Sidewise, Side Foolish III

The 5 Best and 5 Worst AH Premises Chris Oakley Has Ever Read

Operation Unicorn

Series

Volume XI The reports from XII Corps were not good but General Brusilov tried to comfort himself with the notion that they could be worse. After a sluggish start the Austrian pursuit had become more determined in the afternoon...

Volume XII Continuing its successful Picardy offensive the British Second Army captured the important town of Crecy yesterday afternoon. It appears that Second Army has achieved a clean breakthrough of the formidable German line of fortifications...

Volume XIII Together with Oberst Hell, his chief of staff, the new commander of Center army, General Alexander von Linsingen went over the plans for attack on the Russian Eleventh Army and the capture of Lemberg...

Volume XIV The German Under Secretary of State, Arthur Zimmerman, signed the secret treaty. Then Sir Roger Casement did likewise. Under its terms the Irish prisoners of war who voluntarily joined the Brigade would be equipped and provisioned by the German Army...

Volume XV The First Lord was meeting with the Admiralty War Group. The first topic of discussion was the sinking of the AMC, HMS Hilary off the Faeroes, which had occurred yesterday afternoon...

Volume XVI Upon learning of Spee’s wireless message from Sayville, Admiral von Tirpitz had insisted that Admiral Bachman call an emergency meeting of the Admiralstab. Admirals von Ingenohl and Hipper were summoned to the meeting...

Volume XVII It was a cold winter morning. General Bruno von Mudra observed the assault by 33^rd Infantry Division from the top of the butte at Vauquois. The German XVII Army Corps had seized this important high ground back in September...

Volume XVIII The chief engineer shook his head vigorously, "We can manage 14 knots maximum for any continued time, admiral. Maybe 15 knots for a short period if there is a battle." Spee’s melancholia increased another notch...

1779: ENGLAND INVADED A reader of modern history, at least as it has been written in English, finds France the perennial runner-up to Britain in the contest for global supremacy...

Imshallah Part 2 Within hours after Sadat’s death, his top military aide, Hosni Mubarak, had been officially confirmed as his successor and assured his fellow Arab heads of state that...

An Empire Reborn Part 3 The British government demands that Portugal and South Africa close their borders with Rhodesia. The British representative to the UN requests that all member nations immediately cut relations with the rogue nation of Rhodesia...

Bugged Once upon a time (the mid-1960s, to be more precise), in a picturesque little West Coast farming village known as Los Angeles, a man named Marvin Aloysius Drenk...

Day of the Machines Part 2 By this stage, in the struggle with Deep Blue, only a handful of supercomputers and mainframes remained under Human control. These had escaped Deep Blue only because they had no links with the outside world...

Full-Court Press Part 2 Game 1 of the 1962 NBA Western Division semifinals saw the largest crowd that had yet filled Sam Houston Coliseum for an NBA playoff game...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 16 Though pop culture in general-- and the movie industry in particular --have sometimes tended to exaggerate the jet’s role in the final Allied victory in Europe...

Year of the Cat One doesn’t generally think of southern Florida as a hockey hotbed. And in fact, when in February of 1966 the National Hockey League named Jacksonville as one of a dozen cities that...

We Will Fight Them On The Beaches Part 2 In early September of 1813 President Madison hatched what would prove his boldest plan yet for the special militias of the US Army...

Doctor Who:

Donna’s World

TV Series

Squadron Supreme (V.2) #1

Comic Review

Washington, Banzai! On the surface, the very idea sounds like something Harry Turtledove might have conceived on an acid high after watching an all-night anime marathon: Japanese mercenaries, or ronin...

Cassville 1864 By 1864 the American Civil War had entered its third year. Events in the East had been dramatic, to say the least, and had henceforth dominated the headlines of newspapers across both the Union and the Confederacy...

Cold Discomfort From the October 16^th, 1994 Boston Globe, page A7: Oxford Scientists Report Signs Of Possible Shift In Earth’s Magnetic Poles

Troy victorious King Priamus stood surrounded by a small crowd of royal bodyguards and dignitaries in front of the great wooden horse. Around the astonishing contraption a great circle of curious, vociferous citizens and silent, businesslike soldiers was...

Comrade Hitler Part 10 The news of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and northern Korea hit the Japanese public like a kick to the solar plexus. The Japanese had been victorious in battle so often...

The Requiem of Blood Australia, by the summer of 1980/81, had seen five tumultuous years. Since The Upheaval, of 1975, Australia had suffered greatly. Not only were thousands locked up in prisons, around the country, but the economy had suffered as well...

Pitiless Fate In his 2005 book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, American political/social commentator and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg sums up a chapter...

Full-Court Press Part 3 As the Oilers geared up for the start of the 1962-63 NBA season, all the stars seemed to be aligned in favor of their repeating as NBA champions...

Moment of Truth in Iraq

Book Review

The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1

Comic Review

Time Spike

Book Review

Operation

Unicorn

Series

Volume I Admiral Franz von Hipper was thinking about the defenses of Heligoland Bight for which he was responsible. Suddenly a thought entered his mind. The sandbar at the mouth of the Jade Bay could only be safely crossed by the German capital ships near high tide...

Volume II General Joseph Joffre’s reputation for imperturbability was being sorely tested. The latest news emanating from General Maunoury was most discouraging. The 62^nd Reserve Division had failed in its attempt to cross the Oise and IV Corps was unable to bridge the Aisne...

Volume III It had been a long, long night. Overall the attack of IV Reserve Corps appeared to be progressing well, but as usual in this war reports had been fragmentary, frequently delayed and sometimes downright contradictory...

Volume IV "General French, I must ask you one more time to reconsider your orders. I feel it is my obligation as a British officer to make clear my reservations."

Volume V The French Tenth and Second Armies have already begun a series of night attacks on the German Sixth and Seventh Armies. At 0700 we begin with attacks by both divisions of III Army Corps into Crecy Forest and by 5^th Division to the north of St. Riquier...

Volume VI The main batteries of the four predreadnought battleships of First Division Fifth Battle Squadron commenced firing simultaneously. On the compass platform of the HMS Prince of Wales Admiral Cecil Burney, the commander of Channel Fleet, observed the bombardment...

Volume VII A second star shell illuminated the sky with its preternatural brilliance. Three small coasters carrying urgently needed supplies were trying to reach the harbor at Calais now that the moon had set. Escorting them were eight elderly destroyers of the Dover Patrol...

Volume VIII Admiral Jackie Fisher tried to suppress a yawn but failed. He was not as young as he used to be and he had never been a night person. Arriving at the office very early was much more his style...

Volume IX Admiral Frederich von Ingenohl, commander of the High Seas Fleet, was meeting with Admiral von Hipper, and the three commanders of the battle squadrons...

Volume X Wolves howled in the distance. A cold piercing wind blew through the trees. Moonlight poked ominously though a gap in the clouds improving visibility just enough to spawn strange dark shadows...

An Empire Reborn Part 1 January 27^th 1965 Looking over the map he surveyed the empire, his new empire. Just a few hours before he spoke to the Italian people on his new role as Consul, assuring them that he was in no way replacing their great leader he was merely continuing in his tradition. But, things would be changing. Il Duce only saw soldiers when he looked over these very maps, the only value a province had was how many men could be put in uniform...

Movie Reviews: Gagarin Without a doubt, the sudden death of Soviet air force major Yuri Gagarin in the Vostok 1 spacecraft tragedy forty years ago was one of the terrible calamities in the history of human exploration. What began as a moment of triumph for the Soviet Union when it attempted to put the first man in space turned into a moment of horror when Gagarin’s capsule exploded just eight minutes after liftoff...

Obituary: Emperor Franz Ferdinand I His Imperial Majesty Franz Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, lies in state as dignitaries from around the world, including Vice-President Earl Warren of the United States, pay their respects. The Emperor passed away in his sleep three days ago at the age of 83...

Day of the Machines Part 1 Whilst the Human race busied themselves with life around them, everyday things had taken over from the larger issues at hand. Issues such as the ethics of science, or where was the Human race headed had, by the 1990s, all but disappeared from the minds of most people. Even in academia, what with the influence of the Positivist movement, questions which were...

An Empire Reborn Part 2 April 17^th 1965 An anti-war march in Washington D.C. attracts over 20,000 protesters. A counter-protest organized by a local Fascist organization attracts roughly 2,000. No violence is reported...

The Common Cold Part 3 Looking back it’s been a damn strange year. Stanley Baldwin out on his ear after making a dreadful mess of the election, Austen effectively defecting back to the party of his youth, Labour marching backwards almost as fast as they’d surged forwards and all the time Asquith and The Goat keep skating their minority government along the rails...

Behind the Curtain By the time this gets posted, it will have been about three years since I made my first submission to Changing The Times; in those three years I’ve had a lot of fun exploring all kinds of historical possibilities. But out of all the articles I’ve sent to CTT, the one I’m most proud of is the eight-part series Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae...

The Boys: Good For The Soul

Comic

Review

In Memoriam: George Herman "Babe" Ruth George Herman "Babe" Ruth, the baseball outfielder whose phenomenal slugging talent and larger-than-life personality made him one of the Yankees’ first bona fide superstars of the television era, died last night at the age of 53 of throat cancer at Columbia University Hospital. According to a Yankees team spokesman, Ruth’s family was by his side at the time of his death; a public memorial service is scheduled for Thursday...

In the Shadow of Gethsemane: Remember, Remember, Part 2 The dramatic events on 11^th November 1975, that being the sacking of the Whitlam Government by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr, was dwarfed within minutes by the assassination of the said dismissed Australian Prime Minister. Even though it has never been proven, one way or the other, that Whitlam’s death was deliberately planned, it did ensure that The Upheaval got under way with serious intention...

A House Divided Part 1 From its earliest days as an independent nation, America had long been troubled by the moral, social, and political ramifications of slavery in its southern states. No less a figure than the second President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, the very man who incorporated the phrase "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence, had to grapple with these problems throughout his political career...

Hancock 1862 - Sequel to Action Jackson 1862 Thomas Jackson had done it again. The Union army was beaten fairly and squarely. Robert E. Lee’s strategy had once again been proven victorious by sending Jackson’s "Foot Cavalry" on a wide outflanking march, around John Pope’s Union Army of Virginia, and had, along with Longstreet’s attack, annihilated it more or less entirely...

The Cienfuegos Meteor Crater Rarely, if ever, does a vacationer to Cuba end their trip without at least once standing on the rim of the Cienfuegos crater, known to local residents as simply "the crater" or (if you’re feeling a little more imaginative) "the cauldron". Formed by a meteor impact millions of years ago...

1954 Bob Thomas was in a meeting room, drab, heavy smell of tobacco smoke. Three men in military uniforms, and one in a suit were sitting at the table. Two guards in military uniforms were standing by the door. Mr. Thomas, why didn't you come to us first? Bob Thomas was still groggy. Mr. Thomas!. Stirring himself, he answered...

Sidewise, Side Foolish II

Chris Oakley rates the 10 best

& 10 worst Short Stories

He's ever read

No Second Alamein Winston Churchill is a most complex historical figure. On one hand he is the man who kept Britain in the war for a year and a half [June 40 – Dec 41] when by all rights the UK had no way to win and could have best served its interests by doing a deal with Hitler. On the other hand he was a disaster as a warlord....

Obituaries: Sergei Kirov, 77 Sergei Kirov, the onetime mayor of Leningrad who survived an assassination attempt on his life orchestrated by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, then ousted Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union in a coup supported by elements of the Red Army and later changed the face of Russian society and politics after the Second World War...

East Timor ISOT to 1937 No one could explain it. Everyone who was in East Timor, at the time, all of a sudden woke up the next morning and their world had drastically changed. It was no longer 2008, but 1937. The world had not suffered the Second World War, yet, nor had the Soviet Union arisen to become a Superpower...

Smoke On The Potomac: The Untold Story Behind The Watergate Hotel Fire More than three decades have passed since the Watergate luxury hotel and office complex was gutted by a massive fire that left many of its residents dead and cost the Democratic Party thousands of pages of important files which might otherwise have helped it take back the White House from Richard Nixon...

Action Jackson 1862 Much has been said, over the years, deriding the abilities of Union general George McClellan. It is true that he was slow. It is true that he constantly bickered with US President Lincoln. But it is also true that President Lincoln and Secretary of Defence Edwin Stanton, with their constant interfering with McClellan’s plans, only ensured defeat...

Sidewise, Side Foolish

Chris Oakley rates the 10 best

& 10 worst AH books

He's ever read

Bear-Hunting For most of the 1985 NFL regular season the Chicago Bears seemed like destiny’s darlings, getting off to a torrid start and finishing as the first 16-0 team in NFL history; their performance in the NFC playoffs only served to reinforce the impression that they were fated to finish the year as Super Bowl champions...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 41 Upon discovering the body of Mussolini, the contingency plan for the situation immediately goes into effect. The Emperor, the Grand Council and the Comando Supremo are notified and martial law is declared immediately. All military assets of the Empire are put on alert...

Just A Few More Questions, Mr. Menzies One of the most contentious chapters in Australia’s modern history is the legal clash that raged in the early 1950s between the Tasmanian state attorney general’s office and the administration of Australian prime minister Robert G. Menzies over the legitimacy of the June 1950 anti-Marxist amendment to Australia’s constitution...

The Religious Football World Cup Hello and welcome to our TV broadcast of the final to the World Cup. I’m Peter Sterling. With me, as always, is Ray "Rabs" Warren and Paul "Fatty" Vautin. Yes, thank you Peter. This is going to be one fantastic match here today. It will certainly answer those all questions asked so far this season...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 15 Wounded predators can be very dangerous when cornered, and in the spring of 1942 this was certainly true where the Imperial Japanese Navy was concerned. Despite having sustained a hideous defeat at Pearl Harbor Japan still retained at least two front- line carriers...

Ms Holmes of Baker Street

Book

Review

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 39 April 14^th 1963 9:30 AM Local Time The Italians continue to slowly push the Israelis back. Egyptian forces have almost completely regrouped and are adding their numerical weight to the offensive...

Hell on Earth Natural disasters can, and often do, change the course of history; from the meteor said to have wiped out the dinosaurs almost 75 million years ago to the ravages Hurricane Katrina inflicted on New Orleans in 2005, there are countless examples of how such disasters can transform the world...

Full-Court Press When one thinks of Texas in relation to sports, the most common images that spring to mind are those of rough-and-tumble rodeo riders clinging to the backs of bucking broncos; high school football players dedicating themselves to their game with a zeal bordering on religious fervor...

Shaken, Not Stirred There could hardly have been a more unlikely combination for success in prime-time TV than James Bond, the ultra-suave British intelligence agent created by Ian Fleming, and Quinn Martin, the American television producer who made his mark in the entertainment world by creating gritty, rough-and-tumble crime dramas...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 6 The lights burned late in 10 Downing Street during the last two weeks of March 1939, and not just because of the need to prepare for an assault on the Italian mainland-- Winston Churchill was gravely troubled by the situation in Poland...

Caliphate

(Tom Kratman)

Book

Review

The Authority: Prime

Comic

Review

Ghosts of Fremantle In retrospect, it seems in a macabre way fitting that the first Australian political leader to die at an assassin’s hands should do so in a decade when assassinations of public figures were rife. When Robert Menzies was gunned down on...

Imshallah Without question the Iran-Iraq War was one of the most violent regional conflicts of the late 20th century. It cost thousands of lives, toppled one government and put many others in jeopardy, menaced the global economy, and set the stage for the subsequent Persian Gulf War between the United States and Iraq...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 40 Mussolini placates the Arab nations concerns about the Israeli peace treaty telling them that a limited victory was the only way to prevent outside intervention. Over the years, the Lira Block will be able to pick away at Israel piecemeal through a series of wars and incidents and will effectively element the Israeli state without the rest of the world noticing...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 14 By the time the Taranto jet strike took place, Soviet-German relations had already begun their final irrevocable decline into outright war. A week before the British carrier raid, RAF bombers had struck Berlin in the middle of delicate negotiations between Soviet foreign minister Vycheslav Molotov and his German opposite number...

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The Oliver Cromwell House  Welcome, and thank you for visiting the Oliver Cromwell House. Whether you’re coming here for the first time, or you’re a frequent patron of this museum making a return trip, we hope you’ll enjoy your tour...

The Undecided Peace Midnight, September 25th, 1918: Kaiser Wilhelm II steps down from the throne of the German Empire, and his son Wilhelm III takes his places. Even before Wilhelm III is officially coroneted, his representatives approach...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 36 April 20^th 1961 The Italians have no time to celebrate their political victory over the U.S. as reports begin coming in that a cabal of French generals are planning to launch a coup against the De Gaulle government...

Mint Condition The funny thing is, I wasn’t even really looking for the card when I found it in my attic. It just jumped out at me when I was trying to get hold of something else. I was looking for the owner’s manual to my...

Silent Thunder: The Russia-EU War of 2008 February 2008 – Kosovo declares independence from Serbia, much to the Serbs outrage and that of their Russian allies. The Russians do not move at once to take action – they have no choice, but to do something...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 37 January 24^th 1962 The Organization of the Secret Army (OAS) conducts a bombing against the French Foreign Ministry...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 13 For Adolf Hitler, the launch of der Reisende was one of the most exciting moments of his life; as the A-6 rocket carrying the experimental satellite climbed ever higher into the Baltic sky...

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You Stand Accused The 1948 September Revolt shook Australia to its political and social foundations. Though the Lance Sharkey-masterminded uprising didn’t accomplish its intended aim of overthrowing then-prime minister...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 33 January 12^th 1960 12:15 PM An unconscious Mussolini arrives in the nearest hospital and a team of doctors begin examining and working on him...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 5 Adolf Hitler formally assumed the chancellorship of Germany on January 25^th, 1933 amidst pervasive speculation about whether the self-styled revolutionary could successfully..

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 34 January 20^th 1960 Count Ciano arrives in Washington D.C. he requests a meeting President Eisenhower and is given an appointment for the 22^nd...

Jambo Olympus! It started as a dream in the mind of a teenager watching the 2010 World Cup, grew into a rallying cry for the people of Jo’burg, and finally became the coming of age for post-apartheid South Africa...

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Deutsch America My Dear Adolph, I was of course fascinated and proud to hear that you have been accepted as a Colonial Administrator in the German Congo...

We Will Fight Them On The Beaches Contrary to popular belief, the notion of asymmetrical warfare is not a uniquely 21^st century concept of even a uniquely American one. Indeed, in one form or another it has existed...

THE HISTORIC MOMENT To all our viewers, ladies, gentlemen, and AIs, welcome to NewsNet's coverage of this historic occasion.  Our advisors say we have about half an hour before...

Target Damascus Final Part It wouldn’t be an exaggeration, or at least not very much of one, to suggest that all of America was so quiet you could hear a pin drop as the American public waited on the morning of November 9^{th ...}

The Londonistan Guardsman We all love to read novels. Great novels. Best-selling novels. I have talked a lot about such novels in the past, for example the classic Extinction Event by Bruno Lombardi and the amazing...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 12 With its navy crippled and its army increasingly on the defensive, Germany’s last hope for turning the course of World War I back in its favor rested with...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 35 June 8^th 1960 Medici is recalled from his post as Viceroy following his appointment as Minister of Industry. The new Viceroy of Greece is Prince Amedeo...

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A new scene for The Empire Strikes Back There's going to be an extra scene included in the DVD release of Empire Strikes Back coming up next year...

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Lord of the Rings One of the cult novels of the 1970s turned out to be Lord of the Rings...

An evil British empire The suggestion has been raised as to how an Evil British Empire (TM) could arise. To cover this, I've made a number of assumptions...

Emperor Norton the Peacemaker During the ACW, Emperor Norton felt it his duty to try and bring North and South to a peaceful resolution...

Review of the alternate history: The Falklands War The bandwagon of AH rolls on. We have seen the books on WW2, and the Korean War...

The Eagle and the Lion There are many timelines which take as their premise British intervention in the ACW. These usually go along the lines of...

The Original Alien Space Bats - Irony and Steal Being parody of a number of published What-Ifs and ideas floated on the newsgroup...

What If Harold won at Hastings? This was an ambitious attempt to plot the history of the world, or at least those parts touched by the Europeans...

What If "Emperor" Norton became President of the USA? In 1876, the US had a fairly close Presidential election between Hayes and Tilden...

Who were the bad guys in Star Wars' original trilogy? They call it The Force, you know, like it's supposed to be used for domination and hurting people...

Why Sealion is not an option for Hitler to win the war One of the more common suggestions that crop up at all-too regular intervals goes along the lines of...

The Fuhrer In The Dock It was the trial of the century. Everyone wanted to be there. Notables such as Winston Churchill, a noted anticommunist, rubbed shoulders with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Stalin’s foreign minister...

A Japanese Destroyer In The Sea Of Time We will assume that the destroyer arrives a week before Midway and that the crew has no difficulty in figuring out WTF is going on...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 11 Samuel Langley never forgave the Wrights for beating him to the punch on inventing a practical all-metal monoplane; it was a huge blow to his pride that those ‘upstart amateurs’, as he thought of them...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 32 August 4^th 1958 The first production run for the R-2 Diane Ballistic missiles begins. The Comando Supremo has ordered 60 missiles of which 40 will be fitted with a nuclear warhead...

Comrade Hitler Part 8 The tables had definitely turned in the war in Europe; while the previously successful Germans now found themselves in dire straits, their Soviet allies, who heretofore had been...

A CHANGE

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Epitaph For A Planet During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the human race was devastated by the most lethal plague in recorded history, respiratory disintegration syndrome (also known as "Morgan’s disease" or "the Rome virus")...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 31 March 15^th 1958 Colonial and Greek army positions are overrun as the Unification Day offensive continues to sweep through Greece...

Predictions For The Coming Century Breaking out my clear polyurethane fortune-telling ball obtained from a mystic gift shop outside Barstow, I'm making a few bold predictions for the coming years...

Target Damascus Part 17 The students occupying the Berkley administration buildings were just as adamant in their insistence on continuing their occupation of those buildings as Governor Reagan was in his demand...

Aldershot and Elizabeth The reign of Queen Elizabeth I was barely a year old when a strange event, believed by some to be the work of God or the Devil, brought a strange town into existence only 25 miles from London...

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The Six Year War The Six-Year War, a book written in 2006 by Harry Nosirrah, is one of the fundamentally unlikely counterfactual history books that have recently been written...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 4 Benito Mussolini was one of the first men in continental Europe to grasp the stark truth that the turmoil following the First World War...

The Key West-Havana Tunnel The drive south from Miami is a crowded one. Whether you make it in a minivan, sports car, or a Ford-built Ferrari, the traffic is what sticks in your mind...

Cabot discovers Virginia, American nation 100 years early Volume I John Cabot had early suspicions about his men. The first voyage, he’d explored Newfoundland’s coast and down into present-day Massachusetts, and it got very cold...

Comrade Hitler Part 7 Oddly enough, the first shots in the war between the German Peole’s Republic and the French Republic wouldn’t even be fired on French or German soil...

Cabot discovers Virginia, American nation 100 years early Volume II Britain gained a great deal from Spain - all of Mexico, in fact. It provided a link with their colony of Belize. They tried to insist on Gibraltar, too...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 10 The USS Moffett was only the first casualty in what promised to be a...

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Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 29 November 5^th 1956 British and French paratroopers conduct drops in positions throughout Egypt...

Eagle Land The Mexican-American War was an armed military conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 10 At the time of William Samuel Henson’s death ATC was at the peak of its corporate and financial power...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 30 May 17^th 1957 Argentina seeks admission to the Lira Block...

Target Damascus Part 16 Hubert Humphrey had set a tall order for himself in the spring of 1968, trying not only to win election to a full term as president but...

New England July 26 2006 to July 26 1979, Part 4. Who did JR shoot? that is the question...

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Black Widow FINAL Part Emperor Franz Joseph had just one aim in mind when he began his second war with France: avenging his sister’s death. Although publicly he insisted Austria was acting to protect itself...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 27 February 20^th 1955 Prototype testing begins on the next generation of Italian Strategic Bombers...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 9 The Merlin promised to be the most powerful and effective gasoline engine of its time-- if the engineers who designed it could just find a way to make it work...

New England July 26 2006 to July 26 1979, Part 3 Our new series is called Visits from New England. First up, a 44 year-old Rhode Island resident visited his home in Brooklyn in 1979, shortly after the Event. Actually it was a little scary...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 3 The German government was in an awkward position when its diplomatic representatives at the Geneva peace talks first met with their Allied counterparts at 11:00 AM London time on December 19^th, 1917...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 28 January 27^th 1956 Greek troops still loyal to the Hellenic Council and Italian Blackshirts disperse and arrest rioters and deserting troops...

The Second Black Plague

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From the logbook of the second New Zealand Special Scientific Expedition to North America, entry dated January 8^th, 1971(continued):

Thank God and all his angels, our theories about the radio signal were right all along!

Target Damascus Part 15 It was just after 11:30 AM US Eastern Daylight Time on February 29^th, 1968 when President Humphrey withdrew his National Guard bill from Congress. It simply wasn’t possible, his advisors had told him...

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PROLOGUE The brief Spanish-Moroccan war in the summer of 2002 was the culminating point in decades of frictions between both countries. What started as a stupid border incident escalated...

Day 1: July 17^th 2002 In an ironical twist of fate, this war will start in exactly the same place and date than the last war Spain suffered 66 years before...

DAY 2: JULY 18^TH 2002 July 18^th has been a significant date in Spanish life since 1936. That day started the civil war, whose shadow still keeps haunting Spanish society and politics...

DAY 3: JULY 19^TH 2002 Combat keeps raging on around Ceuta. The numerical superiority of the attackers has pushed the Spanish into the city, forcing them to abandon their defensive positions at the outskirts...

DAY 4: JULY 20^TH 2002 Despite their air superiority and some isolated victory like the one at the Battle of Congress Island, the Spaniards have been losing ground under the steady pressure of the Moroccan army...

DAY 5: JULY 21^st 2002 The Moroccans have lost the initiative. After losing most of their tanks and best units in the foiled counteroffensive of past afternoon, and with the Spanish airforce having control of the skies...

DAY 6: JULY 22nd 2002 Midnight: Hercules Transport planes start arriving to Fuerteventura Airport. More planes and fighters will follow in the next hour...

Day 7: July 23rd 2002 1AM: The Moroccan generals had been preparing the coup for the last two days as a last resort option when they saw that the Spaniards couldn’t be thrown back to sea but...

CRIME AND CONSEQUENCES The world of Earth having fallen totally under the influence of the Evil One, the children of the All Father fled in a liberated spaceship....

Four Feet High & Rising FINAL Part Like a storm cloud, one tormenting question has hung over the islands of the Caribbean and the southern United States for almost a quarter-century...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 25 The CIA tries to plant Italian-American mafioso in Italy to serve as spies and dissidents. The initial reports are bleak...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 26 Rioters overtake the remaining guards at the Athenian Royal Palace and proceed to loot and destroy the complex...

The Second Black Plague Part 6 From the December 18^th, 1970 Auckland Daily Mail: PREPARATIONS COMMENCE FOR SECOND N.Z. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO NORTH AMERICA

Black Widow Part 3 As Axel Fersson was detailing his rescue plan to Marie Antoinette, Grand Legion of the Republic troops were mounting a ferocious assault on the Tuileries Palace...

Comrade Hitler Part 6 It was just after 6:10 PM US Eastern Daylight Time on Septemer 15^th, 1938 when the White House first learned of the start of Case Otto...

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Marshal Boulanger and the Great Fashoda War In 1898, France and Britain came closer to war than anytime since Napoleon to the present. For almost four months, tensions ran high enough that both nations actually began military mobilization...

South Side Tragedy Throughout most of the summer of 1919 the Chicago White Sox had looked predestined to win the American League pennant; with a pitching rotation that included aces like...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 24 His palm slammed down on the detonator for what seemed like the hundredth time in those brief seconds and unexpectedly a second later a bright flash filled the sky and the telltale mushroom cloud...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 7 Though the disintegration of William Samuel Henson’s business association with Corneilius Vanderbilt marked the end of an era in aviation history...

New England July 26 2006 to July 26 1979 Part 2 Mount St Helens erupted right on schedule, at 8:32 AM May 18th. Mandatory evacuations resulted in no deaths...

Target Damascus Part 13 The tension inside the Central Committee chamber on the afternoon of January 27^th, 1968 was so thick it was almost unbearable. Alexei Kosygin knew that he was risking his political career...

WHAT'S A NICE PLANET LIKE THIS DOING HERE? What, if anything has happened to Pluto? Did the IAU (International Astronomical Union) really abolish a planet? A lot of hysteria has been spilled over the IAU action, but I think that much of the concern comes from not thinking the matter through...

Venceremos Part 18 His second term secured, Jeb Bush immediately got to work on setting that term’s foreign policy agenda. High on his priorities list was containing Syria, which under the dictatorship of Bashir Assad...

Blood On The Ice By all rights, the 2018 Trondheim Winter Olympics should have been a spectacular triumph for Norway: it marked the second time in that country’s history it had hosted the Olympic Games...

Nightmares of an old man I could hear the screams as we walked into the Village and the smells were there of burning flesh, rupturing of guts...

1812: The Rivers of War

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Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 19 December 30^th 1950 The Tunisian Liberation Organization (TLO) is established. It is made up primarily of displaced Tunisians and French-Tunisians living in French North Africa...

A Different Dutch War Part 3 July 6 Churchill urges Mussolini not to become involved in the war and warns him that any involvement will be punish hard. Adolf Hitler issues Directive No.13 with the objective is to annihilate...

Sgt. Jacks and the Beanstalk I saw some crazy shit go down while I was in ‘Nam, man, but nothin’ crazier than the day the giant plant popped up out of the ground back in ’67...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 4 "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, into the valley of fire rode the six hundred!" It is one of the most famous poetic lines in the history of the English language...

Venceremos! Part 15 President Montoya was both young enough to be physically vigorous and old enough to remember the days of Castro’s Marxist oppression. That combination lent an added touch of vitality...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 20 December 4^th 1951 Stock Markets crash worldwide as the prospect of another massive war makes investors fearful of investment...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 7 The commander-in-chief of the French navy, Admiral Jean Darlan, was in noticeable and understandable distress as he met with his fellow C-in-Cs at the French defense ministry headquarters...

Target Damascus Part 10 Andrei Grechko was in a foul mood as he sifted through intelligence briefs and up-to-the-minute reports on the fiasco unfolding along the Tehran battlefront...

The Second Black Plague Part 3 From the July 10^th, 1967 edition of The Age: NZ AUTHORITIES END SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS OF WELLINGTON HARBOR PLAGUE SHIP...

Four Feet High & Rising Part 4 Bad luck often seems to be part of the very air that Haitians breathe, and seldom in the past five-odd decades has that been more apparent than when Hurricane Fiona rampaged through Haiti...

I Am Become Death Since their inception in the early 1940s, the objective of the Manhattan Project and its British counterpart Tube Alloys had been to produce an atomic bomb for the Allied powers before the Nazis got one first...

RADAR Comes Early Common knowledge says that Radar was invented in Great Britain, Germany and the United States in the last years before World War Two. Common knowledge has it wrong...

THE MOUNTAIN OF LONG EYES Hegam Kakaichu set aside the eighth grade homework, glad to be done grading it. He picked up the day's Arizona Republic to see what news was in the world. Subconsciously, he stopped thinking of himself as a Tohono O'odom...

The Second Battle of Dorking Well, Jane, as you would say, I guess we all deserved it. I don’t know, of course, what happened to you, or to the kids. I don’t know if some of the flashes we saw in the sky years ago were nukes...

Red Dusk There could hardly have been a more unlikely battleground in the Cold War than Australia. In fact, it has for most of its history proven barren soil for those trying to instill the ideals of Marxism...

Bear’s Teeth, Dragon’s Claws Part 9 With the Soviet Union and the Cold War both fading into memory, most Americans, like their Russian brethren, turned their focus from international crises to domestic issues...

1634: The Bavarian Crisis

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1634: The Baltic War

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The Boys #7

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War of the Worlds: New Millennium

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Venceremos! Part 14 It was no surprise that Secretary of State Robert Gates and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld would be at odds over how an occupied Iran should be governed after Operation Persian Dawn was over...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 6 The first air raid sirens in Paris sounded just after 8:15 PM on the night of September 1^st, 1937. It was not the first time Parisians had heard those sirens, nor would it be the last ...

Target Damascus Part 9 It started very small and spontaneously for the most part, so much so that even some of the protestors themselves didn’t know...

Four Feet High & Rising Part 3 Since 2029 there have been at least twelve separate investigations into the communications breakdowns that led to the massive casualties...

Venceremos! Part 13 News of the Iranian army’s defeat at Abadan struck the Tehran government like a sledgehammer. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his top military advisors had been certain their troops would emerge victorious...

The First Term of Richard Nixon 1960 was as much of a toss-up dead heat election as 2000. There was less screaming because the candidate the media loved, Camelot Jack Kennedy, won the coin toss instead of a Republican...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 16 Negotiations between Yugoslavian communists and the Soviet Union break down when the Soviet agents impose harsh demands for any communist state to be established in the Balkans...

A Different Dutch War Part 2 The British destroyer Afridi is bombed and sunk in the North Sea, while escorting a troop convoy from England to Norway survivors are pick up by a Dutch destroyer. French and British complete a plan that would mean that if Italy joins the war with Germany...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller Part 5 Anyone who had made even a cursory study of Arnold Hiller’s political career could have predicted that he would react badly to the news of Australia and New Zealand’s declaration of independence from Britain...

Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: The Myths of Churchill's War

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Off Armageddon Reef

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Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth In June of 1844, during her seventh year as monarch of the British Empire, Queen Victoria invited inventor William Samuel Henson to meet with her that July to discuss his work in developing a practical flying machine...

A Different Dutch War September 1 1939 Germany invades Poland. November 6 A high ranking Dutch officer informs the Dutch government that Germany has plans to
invaded Holland in the end of 1939...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 4 After he first arrived in Washington to serve as Hiller’s ambassador to the United States, James Riverton had developed a rapport with President Herbert Hoover...

Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon Defeat – humiliating defeat – in the Sino-Japanese War spurred the then Emperor, Guangxu, to order what became the Chinese Reform Movement...

Four Feet High & Rising It was the worst storm to hit the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina. It tore the heart out of two major US cities...

Venceremos! Part 12 From the second the first bodies were pulled out of the rubble of the World Trade Center there were suggestions that a rogue state had a hand in the 9/11 attacks...

Bear’s Teeth, Dragon’s Claws Part 6 Though there were no further major offensives by either the PLA or the Red Army after the Geneva cease-fire talks resumed, tactical ground assaults would go on for the rest of the Manchurian War...

Target Damascus Part 7 Even after giving the order for IDF troops in the Golan Heights to hold their positions, Prime Minister Eshkol still had doubts that he was doing the right thing...

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Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 14 April 4^th 1945 Italy pulls the Blackshirts from front-line duty in Austria to prevent another incident where they are mistaken for members of the SS...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 15 September 2^nd 1945 The surrender documents between Japan and the United States are signed on the battleship Missouri...

Midnighter: Killing Machine

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The Authority (V4 #2)

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The Marvel Civil War –

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The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 3 Ireland greeted Arnold Hiller’s accession to the prime minister’s position with trepidation, if not outright alarm. In My Fight he had denounced the Irish Free State as “a spear aimed at England’s vitals”...

United Armenia Miatsyal Hayastan What if … the Armenian genocide had not been what it was in OTL: a Turkish success? The Turks and their Kurdish accomplices bled Armenia nearly to death by it and could finally mutilate her to a territory around Yerevan – about a tenth of historic Armenia...

1940 In 1916, the United States did not intercept the Zimmerman note, and continued to intrude in Northern Mexico, driving the Carranza government to declare war upon the United States and start the Second Mexican War...

UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION Greg was depressed.  He hadn't had a date in six months (and that one was a disaster).  His job, to be kind about it, sucked.  The pay sucked.  The hours sucked.  And his boss sucked worse than any vampire... 

Bear’s Teeth, Dragon’s Claws: Part 5 In early September of 1968 the Red Army high command began laying the foundations for what would be remembered as the most important Soviet land campaign of the Manchurian War...

THE ANGLO-FRENCH WAR OF 192? While this fact is often forgotten because of the century of Anglo-French alliance recently celebrated in 1904, the "ancient antagonism between Britain and France revived very soon...

Target Damascus: Part 6 The first sign Soviet commanders had that their airborne assault on the IDF rear flank in the Golan Heights might not go off as planned came when anti-aircraft batteries on the Israeli side...

Venceremos! Part 11 For President Gore the Buddhist temple fundraiser scandal-- or “Templegate”, as it was quickly dubbed by an American media deep in love with Watergate analogies --couldn’t have come at a worse time...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 11 July 4^th 1943 Operation Citadel begins with Army Group Center advancing toward Mozhaysk. The Germans have committed over 900 thousand men and 3,000 tanks to the success of this operation...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 12 January 5^th 1944 Field Marshall Rommel is relieved of command of his forces on the Eastern Front after refusing to issue numerous orders sent by Hitler. He is reassigned to France and is put in charge of the construction and operation of the Atlantic Wall...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 13 September 19^th 1944 The Soviet Union and Finland sign an armistice putting an end to the Continuation War...

Dubya Trek Part I Ship’s Log; Star Date 2455.132. The Enterprise has experienced some form of time anomaly. Mr Spock is currently conducting tests to see what happened. According to the ship’s clock, we have travelled back in time to somewhere in the late 1990s... 

Dubya Trek Part II Ship’s Log; Star Date 2455.139. Mr Scott’s repairs to the ship has ensured that we are at maximum efficiency. Mr Spock , likewise, had been at his efficient self assuring me that his modification to the scanners will allow us to identify the cause...

Final Impact 

(Axis of Time, Book 3)

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Chris Nuttall

FIVE MILLENIUM CANON 

OF SOLAR ECLIPSES

Book Review by 

Thomas Wm. Hamilton

British Southern Cone Argentina and Uruguay are much more developed and stable countries today than they have been in OTL. The fact is, the British have been able to make settler countries like Canada, the US, or Australia more developed in a way that other European powers wouldn't...

Operation Quartz Goes Ahead After the Lancaster House agreement and its provisions for an election in Rhodesia involving Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe (African Nationalist Guerrilla leaders backed by Russia and China respectively), the spectre of one of these individuals gaining power in Rhodesia became a possibility...

AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR: THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER My previous essay raised the idea that the Soviet Union had a narrow but real window of opportunity to set its economy on a different, more viable course during Khrushchev’s tenure as its leader, one that was cut short by the Cuban Missile Crisis...

The year the world went intent of self destruction As the USA remembered the day it had become independent the intelligence community was on the edge. All indicators showed that the North Korean dictatorship intended to test it’s missile forces...

Bear’s Teeth, Dragon’s Claws Part 4 From the beginning Soviet authorities in Moscow smelled a rat when it came to the pro-Chinese rebellion that had abruptly broken out in the Lake Hyargas region of Mongolia...

Venceremos! Part 10 Technically, the state of war which was declared between North Korea and the United Nations when the Korean War began in 1950 is still in effect...

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ALTERNATE HISTORY AND THE COLD WAR One point of divergence virtually ignored by writers of alternate history is the Cold War, and in particular the way that the five-decade global conflict came to an end...

Deep In The Heart of Texas When the 1986 National League Championship Series began, most people expected it to be a cakewalk for the New York Mets...

What if Rome had never fallen to the hands of the barbarians? When Emperor Augustus died in 14 AD he left behind to his successor Tiberius a powerful empire with strong natural borders and a powerful army some 20 legions strong ready to repulse any barbarian invasion...

The Lunar Dream People are greedy. Let's take that as an assumption and work from there, OK? Now, I know there's a lot of people in this room who'd disagree with me on this. And that's a good thing, because...

Tesla’s Children 1893: An accident in Nikola Tesla’s lab causes one of his assistants to gain the control of electricity. The assistant becomes the first superhuman under the name the Human Dynamo. Tesla begins further research into creating superhumans...

Target Damascus Part 5 The commanding general of the Soviet expeditionary force to Syria was alarmed by the latest intel he was receiving from his aides...

AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR II: THE GULF WAR OF NINETEEN SEVENTY-THREE In the 1973 Arab-Israeli War the Egyptian and Syrian armies initially won considerable successes against Israeli forces. Indeed, it is widely believed that the Israeli government felt pressured to resort to nuclear weaponry to salvage the situation, but...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 2 On April 17^th, 1932, Arnold Hiller went on the BBC to make what he called "an address on a topic of the gravest national import"...

AH.COM WARS

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Civil War #6

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Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 6 January 4^th 1942 The Russian Baltic Fleet departs from Leningrad steaming south trying to catch the Kriegsmarine in port...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 7 May 6^th 1942 Tanks and Infantry advance into Sofia and though many of the inhabitants are on the brink of starvation the defense mounted is strong...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 8 July 15^th 1942 The Turkish front shrinks as Turkish troops are forced to fall back. They put up a strong fight but...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 9 September 10^th 1942 A rebuilding and industrialization campaign is authorized in the newly acquired territories. The first priorities are the construction of roads...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 10 December 12^th 1942 The Soviets conduct the first phase of Operation Saturn. Two soviet armies smash into the German flanks outside Moscow...

The Lunar Dream Part II Bryan Logan was really getting to hate Luxembourg. Well, only in the technical sense; Charlotte was only in Luxembourg as a bribe, in order to maintain ESA funding...

The year the world went intent of self destruction Part II The European union decides to leave Afghanistan. Making an agreement with neighbouring countries and Russia they regroup all of their forces in Kabul from where they begin a massive air evacuation of all civilian and military personnel in the country...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P  For almost a century, one of the most popular topics of speculation among historians has been how the years between the end of World War I in 1918 and the atomic bombing of Madrid in 1945...

Dispatches From Hell: Documents from the War The following is an excerpt from the St. Louis Times-Dispatch best-selling book, Dispatches from Hell: Documents from the War. Dispatches, published by Dark House Press, goes behind the scenes of the early days of the War, giving readers a never-before-seen look at newly discovered documents...

Venceremos! Part 9 Even as the last shots were being fired in the Persian Gulf, the Bush Administration had already started waging a secret but no less significant campaign against the forces of Somali insurgent warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid...

Never Ending War Part 2 1928- British and American troops begin arriving in Norway. German airships and naval transports begin ferrying German and allied troops into southern Sweden. France launches a new offensive on the Western Front to help the Scandinavians out...

Target Damascus Part 4 July 13^th, 1967 will be long remembered as one of the darkest days in the history of the Israeli armed forces. That afternoon, Soviet armor and infantry detachments backed up by Syrian infantry troops inflicted a severe defeat...

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The Almost Certain Victory The Great War, as it has been often called, has not been a great stamping ground for alternate history. To some extent, the popular perception of the war – essentially as a bloody pointless slaughter – has helped; it seems unlikely that much can actually change in the war itself....

Bad Dream So, there I am, working with the *BIG* Tesla coil, the conjugate mirror and the ferrite-array phase-shift module, when there's a loud POP and FLASH...

It (Almost) Happened Here Part 10 One Irish soldier on the sands of Normandy on D-Day would have been bad enough as far as their German defenders were concerned-- the sight of an entire division of them slogging up Omaha Beach side by side with the Americans constituted a nightmare...

For Goodness Sake, No More European Empires 1856: The Central American nations unite and form the United Provinces of Central America. This act was to protect themselves from imperialism of the United States and the European powers. They win their first victory against the filibuster William Walker...

The Longest War In the valley lay a naked body. His clothes rested off to one or the other side and all he could do was lay there. Ragged bullet holes lanced through skin that was like leather, all tough and unbending but after some work would be comfortable...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae Part 8 The last fragments of the wartime partnership between the USSR and the West were shattered the day Stalin made his vehement charges about alleged American plots to isolate the Soviet sector of Berlin from the rest of Germany...

Bear’s Teeth, Dragon’s Claws Part 3 It was just past 10:00 AM Moscow time on March 3^rd, 1967 when Soviet battlefield radars in the Khabarovsk area picked up the approach of the Chinese strike aircraft which Red Army troops had been warned would be coming that day to drop mustard gas bombs on their positions...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of  This timeline is a "what if," on what if Mussolini was a smarter, shrewder politician in the realm of international relations from 1936 onwards. The point of divergence is the conquest of Ethiopia by Italian forces on May 5^th 1936... 

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of  The Vatican issues a Bull condemning the Nazi subjugation of good Catholic people in Western and Eastern Europe. It goes on to condemn the Nazi especially the Catholics and states that they must reconsider what it means to be Christian...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II (Part 3) Despite heavy air bombardment 2^nd army’s advance has been halted as they attempted to enter into Serbia proper...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of  For the second time in two months Italy launches a massive offensive into the heart of the Slavic lands. Four spearheads stream westward towards Bulgaria as the Bulgarian defenses collapse into retreat. The 2 armies and 2 corps make massive progress in the first hours of the assault...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II (Part 5) Great Britain condemns the invasion of Greece and offers it’s assistance to Greece in repelling the Turkish invaders. The Saydam government is shocked by this British response. They believed the British government to be impotent and would not attempt to interfere in any Balkans affairs...

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The Lorraine Project Vol I It all began with another 'local difficulty' in Central Africa. Many fled, gathered across three borders in make-shift and increasingly insanitary camps. Inevitably, disease and malnutrition ran ahead of the limited aid...

The Death of Göring and the Victory of the Luftwaffe Vol I The Luftwaffe – German Air Force - was officially formed in May of 1935, even though it had existed in some form more or less since being banned by the Versailles Treaty as first Freikorps air formations...

IN HIS OWN RIGHT IV Vol I The Premier of Translyvania, Gheorge de Basesti, had risen from being an outcast and traitor under the old regime, to become one of the most senior officials of the United States of Austria-Hungary. He had achieved his ambition of equal rights for all Transylvanians...

It (Almost) Happened Here Part 9 For the beleaguered handful of German troops still on Irish soil, the moment of final defeat by the Allies was terrifyingly close. Allied forces now held most of Dungarvan and were making a fierce effort to capture the rest...

Remember, Remember, The Eleventh of November, As a Time of Blood and Death Australian democracy died, it is probably fair to say in hindsight, at 11am on 11 November 1975. Although the Prime Minister at the time, Gough Whitlam, was still alive, he would not be for long...

Venceremos! Part 8 General Norman Schwarzkopf, overall commander- in- chief for the UN expeditionary force in the Persian Gulf, felt a distinct sense of déjà vu as he authorized his ground and air units...

When Clio Dances Vol II Cruising ninety-five miles off the southern coasts of Indochina at a speed of twenty-five knots, the futuristic supercarrier launched a flight of four F-35Cs loaded with two Harpoons each...

The Final Countdown Vol II The job was getting to Admiral Mineichi Koga. It wasn’t the long hours, the impossible workload, or even the difficulties of dealing with intransigent Army officers. Those factors could be handled...

The Pinnacle of a War 1916 The successful capture of Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was the result of great planning on behalf of the Allies, along with the collapse of Austrian forces in Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans...

OPERATION RHEINÜBUNG Many readers enjoy thinking of questions such as: What would have happened if Bismarck had arrived in Brest? or would having the Tirpitz along have changed anything?

The Final Countdown Vol I "So you’re telling me there’s no way to get home, Mister Lasky?" "Captain, given the storm we came through the first time, there’s no guarantee we’d make it back alive...

Advance Australia In a small room in The Lodge, Canberra, Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, leader of the National Front, the 1st Viscount Melbourne and generally regarded as an officious, smug, pompous git by all who knew him, lay dying. The year was 1967...

When Clio Dances Vol I When an alliance of Acción Popular and Integralist guerillas overthrew the American-friendly Peruvian government in 1972, the Third Reich had sent in two Fallschirmjager divisions to ensure that there was ‘peace and stability’ in the country... 

Bear’s Teeth, Dragon’s Claws Part 2 Lyndon Johnson first learned of the Chinese attack on Khabarvosk via a coded telex from the US embassy in Moscow. "I don’t need this s...

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Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae Part 7 The first air raid sirens in Kokura went off just before 12:10 PM local time, sending hundreds of people scrambling to reach the nearest shelters. As it turned out, though, they might have done better to stay above-ground...

The Lorraine Project Vol II After coffee, I made my excuses, left Pete in the Café, went back to my room. I stripped, emptied my valve, locked through and emerged as Rhys. Her lighter bag held only baby cream, talc and body wash...

IN HIS OWN RIGHT IV Vol II As President Albert Beveridge looked over his capital at the end of 1920 from the site of the Lincoln Memorial, he recognised that he may be the last President of the United States. The Cascadians had been bought off by the British taskforce...

The Dismissal: Why Gough Whitlam Couldn’t Simply Say No I am quite sure by the time some even finish the end of this paragraph, they may think that I am some crazy left-wing Australian unworthy of breathing their oxygen...

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Desert Sand, Pacific Sky The four Standardpanzer E-50s drove forwards past the wrecks of half a dozen Crusaders and four Grants… the Panzer’s work of the last few hours. Following close on their heels was a company of PanzerGrenadiers…

Kingdom of New Israel In 1530 David Braham, the son of a prominent Jewish rabbi, has a vision in which Moses tells him that he must lead the Jews across the ocean to the New World, and found the second Israel...

Target Damascus Part 3 The mood inside the Kremlin walls on July 8^th, 1967 was grim to the point of melancholy. Operation Scirocco, the Soviet battle plan for driving the Israelis out of Syria, was in danger of falling apart...

The Death of Göring and the Victory of the Luftwaffe Vol II In the latter part of the summer of 1940, Luftwaffe was once again armed to the teeth and ready to rumble. New deadly weapons – especially bigger cluster bombs and much heavier ordinary bombs...

Franco-American War Part 2 1852 brought yet another three-way election as the American Party tried to capitalize on its growing success in the agrarian West and a few other states. However, by and far the nation did not accept its agenda...

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Bear’s Teeth, Dragon’s Claws The air in Odessa, Ukraine on the morning of April 24^th, 1965 was gloomy— and not just because of the typically damp, chilly spring weather or the grief Odessa’s citizens felt over the passing of native son and World War II hero Radion Malinovsky the previous day...

Venceremos! Part 7 In geopolitics, as in show business, timing is crucial— and the CPSU’s timing couldn’t have been worse in appointing Konstantin Chernenko to succeed Yuri Andropov as party First Secretary...

It (Almost) Happened Here Part 8 Despite starting the war at a distinct disadvantage against the United States, Japan had so far enjoyed remarkably good luck-- so much so that the government came to believe its own propaganda when it boasted that the Japanese home islands would never be threatened...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae Part 6 On March 3^rd, 1945 Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues gathered at a sheltered observation spot near the Trinity test site; though little if anything was known about what would happen when their experimental atomic device was set off...

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1941: Hitler tries the Mediterranean strategy In the late spring of 1941, many people in Germany and elsewhere thought that Hitler (after having conquered Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete and with Rommel advancing in Egypt) would try to further proceed in this area, i.e. conquering Malta...

How The Confederacy Could Have Survived The War There has been, in history and alternate history circles, many arguments and scenarios on how the Confederate States of America could have won the Civil War. We hear great tales of Confederate victories at Gettysburg, for example, or indeed even at Antietam...

Never Ending War Part 1 What if World War I never ended?

1914- The Great War begins with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

1915-1916- Stalemate continues on western front with no movement whatsoever and huge losses of life.

Target Damascus Part 2 As twilight settled over Tel Aviv late on the evening of June 13^th, prime minister Levi Eshkol and his cabinet met in special session to take stock of the situation on the Syrian front. For the most part, the news was positive...

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Venceremos! (Part 6) When Cyrus Vance and President Carter asked Robert Kennedy to accompany them to Beijing for Carter’s historic October 1977 summit with Chinese head of state Deng Xiaoping, Kennedy didn’t hesitate to say yes...

Wankfest! If I could find a good parallel to the wank scenario, it would be the Mary Sue, if look closely you can find a lot of resemblance. Both are mostly fantasy made by the author...

Skunk Works Part II Hendriks was having difficulty performing his normal duties as POTUS, as his concern with the Project continued to push itself into the forefront of his mind...

It (Almost) Happened Here (Part 7) As the advance units participating in Case Torch mounted their initial attacks against Kilkenny just after 6:30 AM on June 22^nd, General Heinrici still felt a nagging sense of unease...

America vs. Rome 1776: American republic established. 1803-1853: After American Revolution the US expands west to the Pacific Ocean and south to the Gulf of Mexico...

Skunk Works Part III The Prime Minister does not, as most Americans believe, head the Canadian Government, although in a practical sense the PM does oversee the daily governing of the nation...

Dark Potter An ASB, finding that the Harry Potter-verse is lacking of meaningful victories for the forces of darkness, decide to shake things up a bit...

The Temptation of Reggie Smithers The Devil was sitting on the end of Reggie Smithers bed. When Reggie had woken in the darkness of his bedroom he knew immediately that something was amiss...

To Sealion and Beyond Adolf Hitler attempts to overthrow the government and is soundly defeated. In the confusion, a man called Kreigslieter saves his life...

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IN HIS OWN RIGHT III 1913 opened with the dissolution of the Balkan League. Since the end of the Balkan War, the League had stood its ground against the threat of the Ottoman Empire, but there no longer seemed a continued need for its operation...

Zionist Uganda Volume I The POD for this timeline is that the Seventh Zionist Congress votes in 1905 to accept the British Uganda Plan as a temporary refuge for Jewish refugees fleeing from Russian persecution...

THE KAPP PUTSCH PART TWO Russia is still the merry Soviet Union, the workers' paradise...Stalin still rules the nation, albeit more paranoid as the Kappists are arming anyone and their brother willing to fight the communists...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae Part 5 There were more than just military and political considerations at work in the decision to continue with the Manhattan Project even though Nazi Germany was on the verge of final collapse...

Zionist Uganda Volume II 1953 saw the establishment of the Grand Army, drawn from the military of the different nations of the Federation...

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LEST WE FORGET What? Speak up, son. Mi hearing’s not war it was. What? Oh? Aye, why not?

MR JOINER It was damp in the shadow of the squat crates stacked high by the warehouse... 

Bloody Kaifeng Captain Hiroshi Neji looked across the turbid waters of the Yellow River... 

myblogspace.com A New Year and New Year’s resolutions. I have decided to start a blog, to try something new...

Yakutsk (March, 1922) It was 3 PM when I finally arrived at the train station at Kulakovskij Prospekt...

The Thousand Iron Phoenixes Almost all of us are gone now, dead of old age, which is the one way of dying...

Afghanistan Reporter Looks Back on Two Decades of Change Edward Girardet, a U.S.-born journalist, writer, and producer based in Paris...

The Incident at Saint Andrew’s In 1926, I was twenty-two. Still young and idealistic enough to see a life stretching out ahead of me...

Journal of Ma Tan I decree that I am now sick of these trains. They remind me of the jails they now have in my own village...

GOVERNMENT END. SCANDAL CONTINUE Following yesterday’s special Royal Gazette’s announcement of the 2549 B.E. Decree of the Dissolution...

The Incident at Saint Andrew’s: Part 2 In stark contrast to the warmth of the priest’s temporary study, the main building was almost as cold...

The Valley Spirit One can walk in the shadows for his entire life, knowing not the light or the life...

YOSSI'S TALE The pale gray clouds of the early morning hung over Kulinda...

IN HIS OWN RIGHT Book One Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, felt the victory coming long before the dispatches reached him...

The Many Names of Armoured Cruiser "BUGSUK" At the turn of the century, nearly all the world’s navies were experiencing a massive increase in both growth and funding...

The Oblong Box He had gone with the oblong box directly from headquarters to the airport, his car passing swiftly through the streets of the darkened capital escorted by two motorcycle outriders...

A short history of the UNA The United Nations of America, as they are known in the English North American writings, are presently one of the richest and most developed countries in the world...

Franco-American War As the relations between the US and France worsen, news of this diplomatic insult shocks the United States. Privateer combat intensifies along with American outrage at this new act...

Alliance Triumphant An ASB, stumbling on the Drakaverse in the 1930s, changes the dynamics of how that universe work. Rather than it being anything goes for the Draka...

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Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae Part 4 The Nazis had no need to conjure up imaginary ghosts as Halloween 1944 grew near; there were more than enough real terrors to haunt them...

Pete’s World If you haven’t been watching Doctor Who (2006), you will probably be unaware that four out of thirteen episodes of the second season featured an alternate world...

The Kapp Putsch After considerable internal debate, the Freikorps fully support the Kapp Putsch, and successfully capture the government of the Weirmar Republic before they can issue the call for a general strike...

Mexican Intervention Part III The CoN had an early advantage here, as their strategic assets were all closer to the border than their PAC counterparts. Strategic bombers were already fuelled and in the air in seconds...

IN HIS OWN RIGHT BOOK TWO - Volume Two While the tradition was for much celebration on 4 July and still is to this day, the 134th anniversary of the foundation of the Union was a dark chapter in the history of the United States...

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First Blood: Prologue Sub - Lieutenant Edward Goodwin dragged himself up… how he had got himself into this mess?

First Blood Admiral Sir Tom Philips surveyed the scene from the bridge of HMS Prince of Wales. No one knew how the three strange ships had got there...

IN HIS OWN RIGHT BOOK TWO - Volume One While the violence continued to afflict the European continent, Since the September 1906 invasion of Cuba, there had been considerable debate...

Stores of Triangle Some time ago, before Paregoric became what it is today, there was a village called Parse. It had been founded along the Penn Stream ...

Venceremos! Part 5 On November 21^st, 1964 the US Congress authorized President Johnson to begin deploying combat troops to South Vietnam. The initial contingent was to consist of 200,000...

It (Almost) Happened Here Part 6 At 5:37 AM Berlin time on the morning of March 16^th, 1941, the Bismarck left Kiel on what would turn out to be its final run as part of the Seebrücke convoy...

Lovely What can I say of the same girl that met me at the W & L? She is Phillipino-Korean. She is Chinese as well...

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It (Almost) Happened Here Part 5  Almost from the minute Japan had declared war on the United States two days after the 1940 sinking of the USS Reuben James, both sides had known that sooner or later the issue of whose navy would dominate the Pacific would force a showdown...

TimeLine E - Apocalypse World As far as can be determined, the genesis of World War Three lay in the Polish Uprising of 1980. The Polish underground had in fact managed to acquire quite a commanding position within the citizens (the Communist party was literally being ignored), in effect making it the real government of Poland...

First The Skies Ernst Woehller, engineer and Captain in the Luftwaffe, the air force of the German Third Reich, sat in the hot and humid atmosphere of the basement of the a non-descript Berlin office building. He was focusing intently on the plans laid out on the table in front of him...

Maximum Elevation -- Fire! Anybody interested in what's going on in the world soon gets snowed under with a mass of information. Most of it just flows by but some of it sticks, according to what interests the individual...

Desert Fury The one major Iraqi offensive into Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War was a very limited attack against R’as al-Khafij, a town south of occupied Kuwait. The cowardliness of the Saudi forces holding the town allowed Saddam’s forces to occupy the town, which the Saudis took very personally...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae - Part 3 A mood of euphoria bordering on religious rapture took hold of Parisians as the fabled bells of Notre Dame Cathedral began ringing at five minutes past noon on August 15^th to signal that the City of Lights was at last free from Nazi occupation...

THE LIBRARIAN AND THE BARBARIAN You get all sorts coming into a reference library. The clever ones, the cranky ones, and all too often the weird ones. Libraries seem to attract the least attractive types, especially the male specimens; what's really annoying is that so many of the nerds seem to think that all female librarians are frustrated old maids hiding from real life...

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THE ARM’S-LENGTH WAR VOLUME 3 Gregory barely felt the mud grab at his feet as he leapt off the path, pursuing Warwick. As he had learned in the past, during drills on Royal Navy ships, he forced himself not to look at his watch – although now it was a fabric-thin chronometer built into the comm on his wrist...

Houston’s Failure Part 1 At the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836), Santa Anna was not surprised and Houston was forced to withdraw. The Texans request help from the United States but they are denied the help as the United States does not wish to be involved...

Venceremos! Part 4 Around 10:30 AM on the morning of July 7^th, the last remaining Soviet citizens in Cuba, a group of less than two dozen employees of the official news agency TASS, boarded a freighter in Havana Harbor to make the journey home...

Skunk Works Patrols, especially the longer ones were always the same, boredom, with the occasional false alarm to enliven the day. Every mile, every turn, the same as the last, every single time, the routine of the patrol never varied, even when it was in a different direction...

XXXX Flights' The X prize was set up to provide an incentive for private companies to develop space flight. Or, at least, as near to space flight as is possible for anybody without NASA's budget...

THE DEVIL’S OWN The place was dirty and ran-down, covered in carcasses of rusting iron and concrete that reached out to the grey sky like leprous fingers of fallen giants. Thin veins of decayed power lines were akin to wrinkles on the canvas of snow and clouds, left alone in their magnificent desolation...

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SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER V For some unaccountable reason Henry found the march back to Jennings' and Parrish's position nerve wracking. Over ground where he had almost strolled the previous night he now moved with exaggerated caution...

Venceremos! Part 3 It was just after 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time on the morning of June 15^th when President Kennedy summoned JCS Chairman Taylor, General LeMay, Defense Secretary McNamara, and CIA director John McCone to his office...

THE ARM’S-LENGTH WAR VOLUME 2 Gregory moved his hand towards the submenu for life support systems, about to wave a fingertip through the three dimensional, holographic ‘button’. Then he hesitated. "Atmospheric com… there’s no such thing!"

SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER VII Henry found the first barricade to his progress about a mile from the farm, where the narrow road had just begun to rise from the level ground in the bottom of the valley...

Target Damascus On June 5^th, 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive air and ground strike against Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria; this attack marked the start of the Eleven-Day War, a conflict which would cement Israel’s status as the dominant political and military power in the Mideast...

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Mexican Intervention: post 2029 While the West Pacific engulfed itself in the most intense conflict of the new century, the rest of the world turned without much notice from the participants of either conflict...

SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER VI Where there had been bone chilling cold there was now sweat and urgency. Henry and Reech were working against time to finish laying out the landing lights for the gliders...

It (Almost) Happened Here Part 4 Dawn in most parts of Ireland is heralded by a rooster’s crow or the ringing of an alarm clock, but on October 21^st in the city of Limerick it was greeted with the low hum of Wright Cyclone radial engines followed by the wail of air raid sirens...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae: Part 2 On July 25^th, five days after Hitler was killed, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden; three British and four American divisions, supported by a Canadian infantry division and various Free French units...

SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER VIII Henry sat astride the Indian trying to make sense of the controls, the hot engine ticking as it contracted in the cold wind. Left hand twist throttle, but no gear change mechanism there. So the clutch had to be the left side rocking foot pedal...

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TIMELY INTERFERENCE Vivian Grafton clicked the remote to mute her television. Not that she was uninterested in watching the first lunar landing, but she despised the President, and that crook was on a split screen talking to the astronauts...

SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER III Good old Rudyard. I wished he'd lived long enough to see this. But I take your point. It's just as easy to get things wrong with computers as it is with anything else, perhaps a great deal more easier...

A USA Less World Part 2 In this TL New York and the rest of New England fall out and bicker over Vermont and Maine. The new countries have several small military actions over a period of years, in which NY eventually comes out on the short end and New England acquires both Vermont and Maine...

It (Almost) Happened Here Part 3 What the men of the American Expeditionary Force to Ireland (AEFI) lacked in combat experience, they made up for in professional training and love of country...

Foresight is not Hindsight The military mind has been much-maligned, in particular the failure of various armies to adopt measures that – in hindsight – would have won the war earlier...

Venceremos! Part 2 Like swarms of locusts, the F-100s and F-8U Crusaders started descending on Santiago de Cuba, unloading bombs wherever any military or industrial targets were found...

A USA Less World Part 3 As 1914 dawns the European alliance situation is pretty much the same as OTL. The butterflies flapping around this USA Less World have not really started to impact Europe proper that much...

The Kaiser Tank – A Short History Of all of the armoured vehicles in World War Two, the Kaiser ranks with the British Matilda and the American Sherman as one of the most important and decisive vehicles of the war...

THE WORLD CREATED BY NORTH SHORE MILITARY ACADEMY NSMA arrived in 1770 as a result of a physics experiment gone awry. As it developed its numbers, strength, understanding, and influence, it created an entire Historical Analysis Office... 

SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER IV Henry was having a more peaceful life in enemy occupied France than he'd managed to have in England for the last few days. Which wasn't really that odd, come to think about it...

WWI and ½ June 28, 1914 Kaiser William II of Germany was at Kiel for the annual Elbe Regatta. It was a time for yacht races and celebration. The British had sent a squadron of warships and they were there as honored guests...

THE ARM’S-LENGTH WAR Although eyebrows might be raised at some of the facts: the oak tree that had been cut down to provide wood for the desk hadn’t even been planted yet, indeed the planet on which it had grown had never been touched by Earth vegetation...

Sic Semper Tyrannis Germaniae From the moment he first assumed power in Germany in 1933, Adolf Hitler felt an almost supernatural certainty that he was destined not only to rule Germany but to make her the dominant power...

Caledonia Capo Henril sighed. It was going to be a long day. Even though the Provisional Government did have the decency to look the other way on supplies, their insistence on "social donation" really made it worse...

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It is a time of civil war. The Rebel forces, striking from a secret base, have won their first victory against the evil BOARDWIDE EMPIRE...

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It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Tsar has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base...

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Luak Slywanker has returned to his home planet of Arrakisimeantatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Floid Lonely from the clutches of the evil gangster Santa the Fatt...

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THE SEAT OF LEARNING (tm) The teacher smiled, and said, "Good Morning, class." Most of the children responded, "Good Morning, Ms. Rasmussen." Eddie Fenim stood up and hit the boy sitting in front of him on top of his head...

SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER I Suppose the transistor had been invented in the United Kingdom in 1937, instead of in the United States in 1947?

Different Weapons, Different Wars Actually just one musket ball could have changed everything. In the southern colonies in 1780 one Major Ferguson was killed in combat with American forces. Lets say that the bullet hit a tree instead...

SPARROWHAWKS It was in 2007 that the newly installed Indonesian military government faced despair. There seemed to be no hope of recovering from the economic shambles left by the deposed civilian government...

MOONSTRUCK Part 3 It was far larger than the bridges of smaller Astroforce capital ships, even proportionately speaking. Blair Class battleships had been designed to serve as flagships for the most powerful non-carrier forces...

A Successful Sealion Part 2 The Germans have reluctantly accepted a provisional British government, under General Fuller, as the British representative for the surrender terms...

A Tale of Two Assassinations Part 2 My main interest in writing this AH was in exploring the possibility of the creation of an American dictator. I felt that much like in Germany, the best and the most likely period of time for this to occur, would have been between the wars...

Venceremos! The Florida Keys War On the surface it looked like Cuban Communist overlord Fidel Castro had achieved his greatest political triumph since his overthrow of the Batista regime two years earlier. He’d faced down and defeated an attempt by CIA- backed counterrevolutionary troops...

British Rocket Artillery -- if only A few weeks into the war and the Master Gunner of the British Army is a worried man. The Royal Artillery is by far and away the most professional arm of the British Army, but it way below establishment in modern guns...

It (Almost) Happened Here Part 2 "Enemy resistance in Dublin has come to an end…¹" Those words were music to Hitler’s ears; with Ireland’s ancient capital now firmly in German hands the de Valera government... 

SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE - CHAPTER II The main street of Petty Bowling hardly seemed big enough to accommodate the half Troop, even when spread out in tactical formation. At the entrance to the village a wooden bench was occupied by a dirty looking woman about thirty years old...

The Fall of the House of Saud The Saudi Government formally requests that the US troops be withdrawn from its territory. This is not a sign of inherent anti-Americanism, as many believed at the time, but a sign that the Saudi Government was trying desperately to compromise...

Dread Empire’s Fall

Book Review

A LITTLE MORE NIGHT MUSIC: A sequel to Time for Patriots. "That's dumb. Napoleon's in France, and Mozart's in Vienna. How could saving the life of a musician in Vienna affect what a Frenchman is going to do?"

A More Dangerous Hitler Part 5  Hitler was at first eager to proceed with his next adventures and attack something or somebody in the spring of 1943...

A Successful Sealion A question that has been asked from time to time is if Operation Sealion, the German invasion of Britain 1940, could have worked – and, if so, how...

A USA Less World Part 1 To explore the ramifications of our world without the existence of the USA, first we have to logically find away that the USA would not have developed as in OTL...

ÄABYSSINIA REJECTS FASCISTS The Fascist invasion of Ethiopia is seen often just as minor development in the events who take place in Europe and in the East during the Thirties...

Britannia at 450 AD By 450 AD, the island of Britannia was enjoying prosperity through trade agreements with the Visigoths, as well as wealthy Romans from Gallia fleeing the Visigoths...

THE CROWN’S COLONY OF HIGHER CONGO Britain recognized the borders of the Free State of Congo in August 1885. Leopold, king of Belgium...

From One Dictator To Another Popular opinion on the Stalin- Chamberlain- Hitler interactions between 1937-39 see it as a bargaining contest...

GHOSTS OF KREMLIN Moscow was a city seemingly permanently covered in gray, damp cloak of fog that never quite solidified into rain, soaking into every surface...

It (Almost) Happened Here When France surrendered in late June of 1940, it instantly became clear that sooner or later the Nazis meant to conquer Britain as well...

Logbook of Danny Texas We have managed to find our lost mechanical man. We had to go undercover in this rustic island that is claimed under the Gaijin Neutral Zone...

MENELIK MARCHES ON ASMARA Italy took seriously part in African colony race only in 1885, occupying Massaua on the Red Sea, at the time held by the Egyptians...

MOONSTRUCK Part 2 The summer glare – it’d been almost as hot as 2003 – still left its fingerprints on the world, as the sky glowed an unnatural shade of copper well into the night...

No American Caesar Much has been written on the life of General Douglas MacArthur, from his early career as a semi-official strike-breaker, to his command of the Filipino forces...

Province of Darwin Indonesia invades Australia in January. In a lightning strike, they take Darwin. Their advance is halted by Australian troops at Katherine...

THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV The oldest son of Richard, Duke of York, Edward was eighteen when his father claimed the English throne from Henry VI...

The War of Mexican Intervention In January of 1994, a Mexican helicopter gunship in Chiapas strafes and kills Subcommander Marcos and about a dozen other EZLN fighters...

There is Always Hope By January 27^th 1942 all hope for the Allied forces in the Dutch East Indies seemed forlorn. The only Island left under Allied control was the tiny island of Java...

LUAKY COMMER and the Stoned Philosopher (The Movie) The streets are totally deserted, though lights are on in the houses and the lampposts illuminate the street...

The Long Hard Road

Second Chance

Part 3

Jeff Wayne's

The War of the Worlds

(Review)

Circe - A Teaser In ancient lore, the Sailor King was on a migration to his Kingdom, which was some three years distance away to the horizon...

Viva Il Duce In the list of weirdnesses that make WW2 such fun to play with Italy’s decision to enter WW2 has to rate up there among the ones where people sit in the early 21st century scratching their heads going ‘what on earth were they thinking’...

It had been done by accident Crewmember Len Tanaka was sent on a scouting mission. The planet itself was docile, quiet, with its natives quite amusing to the officers of the Savoy... 

A More Dangerous Hitler Part 4 By the end of campaigning in 1941 the German Army is in control of much of the European Soviet Union. Most of the better parts of the Russian army are dead or in prison labor camps...

Seleucid Triumph The effects of the great Seleucid state caused somewhat of a panic in the hallowed halls of the Senate. As Seleucia made moves into Greece...

A Princely State During the run-up to Indian independence, the various Princes of India were very worried about their status, post-Independence...

Miracle at Midway Midway is often labeled, incorrectly in my opinion, the turning point of the Pacific War. It was certainly a noticeable victory. We lost one carrier. Japan loses four and doesn’t take the island... 

Take the Flag down A recent Alternate history story, has Ireland, after a calamity, once again being divided into the four provinces. We will over look the fact that there are in fact five divisions of Ireland... 

MOONSTRUCK: Luna in the Sea of Time In 2350, the Moon is the capital of the advanced, interstellar Union of Humanity - when suddenly an unknowable force hurls it back through time to 2006. Aldrin Garrows can avert the Third World War before it begins. But there are others with agendas less benevolent ...

FAQ of Histories of Our World  Whatever happened to William Speare...

The Row in the town: The Easter Rising The Easter rising is the founding myth of the modern republic of Ireland. Our Storming of the Bastile: Our declaration of Independence...

ISOT American 2002 On March 13, 2002, the continental (i.e. lower 48 states) USA of that day is switched with the USA from March 13, 1942...

Washington's Warlocks For years, the amateur occultists Percy Grove and William Hawthorne had tried unsuccessfully to contact Satan or some of his minions... 

Axis of Evil (Second Chance Part 2) Six months after Britain discovered itself to be in 1940, the war is still raging. From Norway to France to Algeria to the Middle East to India to Australia, the British are fighting desperately to hold a thin red line against fascism…

A Tale of Two Assassinations What did happen- on Feb. 15th 1933 in Miami Fla., shortly after being elected President for the first time, an assassination attempt was made on the life of Franklin Roosevelt...

Viewpoints With the results from California merely validating what was obvious earlier in the evening, America has elected Raymond Mulvey, inventor and megabusinessman, as its next President...

Amine (Fiction) It had occurred to me that she was a vixen rather than an asp... 

Review of Invasion: Earth Invasion Earth suffered badly from its pre-show hype, it should be noted. Not unlike Operation Thunder Child, it was billed as the BBC’s answer to Independence Day...