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During WW1, the Royal Navy was rather let down by the interaction of shell and ship. That is, British armour piercing shells often didn't pierce armour, or at least not in a condition to function afterwards. Similarly, an excessive focus on rate of fire led to poor ammunition handling practices...

That is, what if the 1938 edition doesn't end up on the bottom of the Mediterranean in 1941. There are two possibilities here, neither of which is obviously favoured. U-81 might not have encountered Force H at all, thus Ark Royal continues in service undamaged. This may not be as much of a...

Churchill and Stalin were, respectively, born in 1874 and 1878. Both had a rather stressful time of it 1939-1945, to put things mildly, which affected their respective health somewhat poorly. Churchill suffered from a series of strokes leading to resigning his premiership in 1955, aged a...

What is the latest PoD that allows the Wehrmacht to hold off the Red Army in the East for a further 6 months? Any convenient delay in the Western Allies opening a second front is acceptable, either as cause or effect, but a second front in the West must be opened. Extra credit if you can...

In 1904, the British Admiralty - with one eye on Germany - established a new naval base at Rosyth. Jackie Fisher, then First Sea Lord, strongly opposed the site as unsuitable thanks to its distance from the open sea and the Forth Bridge across the entrance. As a result of his opposition - and at...

What if the ETOPS regulations that paved the way for twin-jet airliners to fly long over-water routes, and thus dominate the air travel market, were never approved? What sort of PoD would achieve this?

In the 1960s, humanity began exploring the two frontiers of space and the deep oceans. Space exploration became politicised thanks to the Space Race and attracted huge public interest. Deep ocean science, meanwhile, is largely forgotten by the public and by comparison to the space program has...

The UK was rather late to the motorway game, opening its' first controlled-access highway in 1959. By comparison, Germany opened its' first in 1932, the United States opened its' first in 1927, and Italy the world's first in 1924. This needn't have been, though. The Northern and Western...

Could the Troubles be avoided, or at least greatly turned down, in Northern Ireland? What wider consequences would there be if this was achieved?

Looking at the timeline of nuclear proliferation, a sizeable number of states started nuclear programs in the 1980s, but were hampered by political or economic difficulties as well as restrictions of the NPT. Suppose that a significant number of new nuclear weapons states emerge through the...

With a POD after, oh, the granting of official independence to Iraq on the 3rd October, 1932, what is the best possible outcome for Iraq?

Despite their longstanding support to Kurdistan, Iran's 1988 intervention in the Third Iraqi-Kurdish War was far from inevitable. There were major concerns in the Army about the possibility of Iranian Kurdistan seeking similar privileges to their Iraqi brethren, whilst many saw the intervention...

The Meänmaa, or Torne Valley, region of Sweden has historically spoken Finnish and had Finnish culture. Crucially, the area contains the iron ore producing area around Kiruna, but not Gällivare. What if the whole area, rather than just that east of the Torne/Tornio River, had been ceded to...

This is my first attempt at a TL, it won't be particularly in-depth or thorough, but I think it's at least a small, plausible change that could have interesting consequences. My apologies, of course, for yet another newbie AH World War 2... As Britain began rearming in 1934, the spectre of what...