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Reading Faeelin's Legacy of Sun-Yat Sen's TL I came with the conclusion that he had Lettow-Vorbeck seizing power in Germany as a way to write a better TL for China but not at the cost of making it the worst TL possible for Europe - i.e. an Axis Victory. China is "good" as long as her cooperation...

WI this guy launched a coup in 1889? Would he succeed? Would he make France "agressive" as he said? Would the French monarchy be restored?

In the old thread somebody mentioned that in this novel Britain quits from the Boer War earlier. I assume that means the Boer republics remain independent in some form. I have not read the book, so the obvious questions for those who did are: - Does the author says why that happens? - What do...

It is pretty usual to see threads of "Britain and France recognize the CSA", but not about one who did while the other stays out or even discuss it. Could the CSA gain independence with only help from France? Could the USA and the CSA even end up as mere proxies in the disputes between the...

What if Abdul Hamid wasn't delayed, and the bomb killed him?

Finally received this book after some problems with the delivery boys (:rolleyes:) along the AH novel Fuego sobre San Juan, and I'm reading it right now. Historia Virtual is a 2004 book similar to the What if...? series, and like it, you can find some key points of the History of Spain discussed...

Well, this is one of the side effects in my TL. If Crete is granted autonomy in 1897 instead of becoming part of Greece in all except name, how much time could this situation last before the Cretans and Greeks go to "discuss" the issue again? Any clues about how would be the government of the...

This embryonic scenario was inspired by some member complaining about that the Philippines end in any TL as a backwater or as somebody's colony. Planning to reverse that, I though in a possible TL. There are two PODs: - Theodore Roosevelt dies of yellow fever in Cuba in 1898, after the outcome...

I discovered this interesting article yesterday. According to it when the Japanese and Russians legations met at Portsmouth the Russian army in Manchuria was rebuilding and the Japanese feared that if they didn't make peace then the continuation of the war would be terrible for them. The Russian...

Suppose this guy played a good strategy instead of constantly switching sides and playing off the Ukrainian factions against each other. It's 1925 and he has been able to unify the country, keep the Soviets out and form an Ukrainian Royal House out of the classical Cossack nobility. Well, how...

Is this possible? Germany as an uber-Prussia, with the King of Prussia as King of Germany and the rest of German royal houses outlawed andtheir domains annexed. This can include Austria or not. Italy, on the other hand, unifies through a series of confederations and ultimately the King of...

Despite the bad system of monarch elections in the Gothic society (Oh, did you lose the election? Just kill the king and call a new one!) it came close to became hereditary sometimes. Other event, even more hard to imagine, is that between 511 and 526 both Visigoths and Ostrogoths were ruled...

What the title says. It had been discussed that France could go fascist after a successful coup in 1934, but what if said coup leaded to a civil war between the French leftist and right-wing parties?

We had post about cars, tanks and other stuff, but what about political systems? It's almost assumed that some form of fascism (or several different forms of it) would arise in different European countries following a devastation war like OTL Great War, regardless of what nations were defeated...

I don't know much ore about this subject than that the Japanese occupied all Sakhalin after the Russian Revolution and were there till 1925. WI they didn't agree to restore the northern part to the Soviet Union? Could the Soviets declare war? Could they win?

How many time would last the "provisional" British occupation of Egypt if there is no WWI to declare it a protectorate without any relation with the Ottomans?

What would be the effects if France or Prussia occupied Luxembourg during the Franco-Prussian War? Was it possible in the first place? (Note that at this time Luxembourg and the Netherlands are in personal union)

Prologue, Part I - The Kingdom with no King. What the fuck?! Finding a democratic king in Europe is more difficult than finding an Atheist in Heaven! Juan Prim, the veteran rebellious General and spirit of the Revolution of 1868 was getting nervous in his office when he remembered that...

Despite some tensions that prevented the extermination of black Cubans during Featherston's rule, it seems that the CSA had an easy time in Cuba until the last stages of WW2 in this timeline. Well, as I pointed out sometimes, I find it a bit unlikely. So, let's suppose that most Cubans didn't...

The Austrian Netherlands were conquered by the French Marshal Maurice de Saxe during the War of Austrian Succession. However, they were restored to Austria in the peace treaty. When the people of Paris knew it, they regarded the decission as "stupid", originating the proverb "bête comme la...