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  1. AH Challenge: France vs. Britain in 1930s

    According to a book I'm reading at the moment, British military planning in the 1920s assumed France would be the likely enemy. What concievable set of circumstances, with a POD no earlier than 1925, could lead to a war between France and Britain in the 1930s?

  2. WI no Blitzkrieg?

    What if, instead of invading Denmark, Norway, Belgium etc. in 1940 Hitler planned to do nothing but continue to build up the German military and make peace overtures to Britain and France? If Hitler had not simultaneously launched his invasion of Denmark and Norway, what would have happened...

  3. A not inconsiderable prime minister

    Is there any way in which John Major's premiership could have been less disappointing. Is there any way in which he could have progressed towards his stated goals of "a genuinely classless society", "opportunity for all", "back to basics" (by which he meant "self discipline . . . respect for the...

  4. The decades that never happened

    Do you remember that the early 21st century was going to be a time of peace and prosperity? Since communism had collapsed, and there was no other totalitarian ideology to take its place, history had ended. All that was left was for democracy to spread to every nation. Centrist political parties...

  5. Trying to remember the name of a FH book . . .

    . . . it was published in Britain, sometime in the 1990s, and was called something like "Armageddon: 2007". At any rate, I'm sure it had "2007" in the title and predicted Terrible Things such as wars in the Middle East and with China. I never read it, but now it's 2007 I think I'd like to.

  6. Saddam assassinated in 2002.

    Saddam Hussein is assassinated in

  7. WI a Jewish Soviet Socialist Republic

    I'm reading A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes at the moment, which is about the Russian Revolution, and I came across this: Is there any plausible way in which a Jewish Soviet Socialist Republic could have been established? Where would it be? What would it be called? And what would be the...

  8. Review: Plotting Hitler's Death

    I recently read the book Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance to Hitler by Joachim Fest. I thought I'd review it here since it might be of interest to some people on this board. Before reading this book, I knew virtually nothing about the German resistance, or the numerous attempts...

  9. Post 1945 Can the Soviet Union win the Cold War?

    I know there's been a thread about the USSR winning the Cold war recently, but most of the suggestions involved removing Stalin and/or communism. So, with a POD after 1945, can the USSR win the Cold War? Not just fail to collapse, but win - either militarily or economically. You are not...

  10. Library Thing

    Has anyone tried this? It's eerily good at predicting what books you will like based on what you already own. And it's a good site generally. Although it doesn't work perfectly in Opera (the browser I generally use). http://www.librarything.com/ One book I found on it was this one - Cross...

  11. What If 9/11 Never Happened?

    Nineteen pages of speculation in New York magazine.

  12. The Yellow Danger

    Just found a review online (from 1898) of a book about a Chinese invasion of Europe: The Yellow Danger by M P Shiel.

  13. Should (and would) Churchill A-Bomb Berlin?

    I'm currently toying with a timeline in which Japan does not attack Pearl Harbour, and I'd like some advice. America has not entered the war against Germany, but continues to supply Britain with Lend-Lease. Also, Britain and the USA have been co-operating to try and build an atomic bomb. The...

  14. A couple of questions about Hitler.

    What was his sense of humour like? And, had he won the war, would he have married Eva and had children? Also, I read in Eva's Wikipedia entry that she spend her time "exercising, reading romance novels, watching films and early German television". What was on TV in Nazi Germany?

  15. WI no Pearl Harbour

    Japan decides it would be a bad idea to go to war with the USA. What do they do instead? The poll allows you to choose more than one option.

  16. Zinn and Chomsky on LoTR

    Unused audio commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, recorded summer 2002, for The Fellowship of The Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) DVD. Part one. Part two.

  17. Decent free online books/stories?

    Do you know any? Here's some I know about: Sci-fi stories by Charles Stross here on this website which also contains lots of other free sci-fi stories by notable authors. Sci-fi stories and novels by Cory Doctorow at his website. Sci-fi stories by Stephen Baxter at his website...

  18. WI 3 day weekend by 2000 AD

    What if, by 2000 AD, all western nations (including Japan) had instituted a three day weekend (as many futurists in the mid 20th Century predicted), with Friday being added to the current weekend. Would this actually have any noticable effect, other than butterflies? Would western...

  19. Fallacies of alternate history

    Looking at people's timelines, and criticisms of timelines, on this forum, I feel there are some unspoken assumptions underlying people's reasoning that just aren't right. The OTL fallacy: The idea that OTL represents the most plausible timeline, and any deviation from it is inherently...

  20. Bazaar (a timeline).

    This timeline is basically a world I'd like to live in, with POD close enough that I exist. It's called Bazaar after Richard Stallman's book advocating open source software, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. All criticisms, comments and especially suggestions for improvement welcome.
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