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One of the big issues of disagreement between Hitler and Guderian in the closing months of WW2 was Hitler's refusal to permit the evacuation of the remains of Army Group North that had been bottled up in the Courland Peninsula, some 15-20 divisions IIRC. Guderian wanted to use these men for the...

From any POD you wish, how could the Act of Union between Britain and Ireland have been prevented allowing the Irish Parliament to continue on into the 19th Century? Would Catholic Emancipation have occured earlier or later in such a TL and what would have been the wider implications for Britain...

What would have needed to happen for The Somme Offensive to have achieved it's objectives? Obviously not telling the troops that they would only need to have to walk across no man's land while weighed down with 50 pounds of equipment is a start, so would better targetting of artillery instead of...

Sorry for being so flippant but I'm drunk and I am trying to make a point about the recent surge of Kate Middleton threads...

In the 1955 UK General Election the Scottish Unionist Party and it's Liberal Unionist allies polled 50.1% of the vote and won a majority of the seats, a record that still stands to this day. From this zenith it was largely downhill all the way as two of the Party's main appeals, support for the...

The Post War period has been one of great success for Britain, along with Germany it is the dominant economic power in Europe and is a World leader in the electronics, computing, financial, aerospace and motor industries. "The British Miracle" began with the election of Sir Anthony Eden's...

Many AH.com members will be familiar with the ignominious maiden, and only voyage of the White Star liner the RMS Titanic, the largest ship in the World at that time. Despite numerous iceberg warnings she continued to sail at high speed through an area 370 miles south east of Newfoundland and...

How likely is it that the Gang of Four could have decided not to break with Labour in 1981 but rather to sit and wait for Foot to lead the Party to inevitable defeat and then try and mount a challenge for the Leadership? How could British politics have developed in the 1980's without the...

Inspired by the "Charles Dies" thread... "This is the BBC in London broadcasting to The Commonwealth. In the last few minutes Buckingham Palace has announced that His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew is missing and presumed dead in the South Atlantic after the Sea King helicopter which he was...

As the title says can anyone come up with a realistic strategy for Britain to prevail in The Aden Emergency and allow the Federation of South Arabia to continue to the present day or was it a lost cause from the beginning? What impact would this have had on the wider Middle East?