Apparently one of Bismarck's shells that hit PoW didn't explode. If it had then the ship may have suffered the same fate as Hood.
Given the run of good luck Germany had in the first half of the war and the run of bad luck that plagued the British I am surprised it didn't happen.
October would be too soon. Large sections of the population as well as the leaders were all pumped up in the early months of the war. You need time for defeats to sink in and then convince the leaders and the people that victory was beyond reach. Germany isn't going to ask for peace if they...
It would be a pointless sacrifice and might even damage the chances of the RAF being able to wage an effective campaign later in the war.
The RAF day bombers were Blenheims, Whilteys, Hampdens and Wellingtons all of them fairly slow by 1940 and largely unsuited to tactical bombing. They would...
A wank is when one country rolls the dice and it keeps landing on a six while the other country (or countries) rolls the dice and it keeps landing between one and five.
Germany between 1936 to 41/42 is an example of the former and Britain the latter.
I'll let others deal with that if they can be bothered.
If he had any sense of honour he would have taken his life before the final surrender. He had failed in everything except a sneak attack. Sinking battleships and killing thousands of people is not all that skillful when the people you're...
Sorry, but the man who engineered a sneak attack that murdered thousands of American sailors is going to hang for it.
AKAIK OTL the Americans decided to murder him on Presidential orders. They are going to hang him, especially as the Emperor is getting away with it.
But in reality he...
The Allies had been at war with Germany for almost 5 years.
Yamamoto knew full well that the government would submit its ultimatum too late. Otherwise it wouldn't be a surprise attack would it? Pearl Harbor isn't going to work if the Americans already know they are at war with Japan.
Something like this.
POD Joffre falls off his horse and breaks his neck early 1914. The French abandon Plan XVII during the summer of 1914 because they know that with Russia and Britain as allies it has time on its side. No need for a crazy charge into Germany.
The Battle of the Frontiers...
I think we have been here before
1983 was only a year of recovery because of the severe contraction of 1980/81 caused by Thatcherite policies. A Callaghan government is going to have different economic policies.
Elsewhere in Europe 1982 was the contraction year and 1983 was barely showing...
The invasion scare probably set the British army back two years in terms of equipment.
Benghazi was a useful port but the British never got much of a chance to exploit it as OTL early 1941 almost everything was being sent to Greece and in early 1942 stuff was being diverted to the Far East...
Market Garden didn't shorten the war by all that much. After capturing the bridges XXX Corps had to halt for supplies. The troops were exhausted after their legendary three day charge through German lines and the airborne still took heavy losses. With Antwerp still closed the Allies faced major...
India's population will overtake China within the next 20 years anyway so we will see if people worry about India especially as the country will be more densely crowded and closer to the powder keg of the Middle East.