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On April 29 1945 300 RAF Lancasters flying at 300' dropped 1000 tons of food to the near-starving Dutch. The closed-up experten German flak crews who had had plenty of practice shooting down 1000s of aircraft of the RAF's Ijselmeer bomber streams, didn't fire a single shot, remarkably...

WI the BEF found itself hemmed in at Calais instead of Dunkirk? From Dover to Calais is 27 miles, instead of the 100 to Dunkirk. This would enable increased RN & RAF cover, but also make easier targets for the Germans, sufficient to suck in all available forces on all sides (including the...

From 1930 until 1955, practically everyone in the west wore Borsalino type hats. Now associated with gangsters, why did it disappear? What would it have taken for the hat to remain in vogue until 1965? And could one day hats (even base ball caps) come almost universally back into vogue?

If you have either or both the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson (assuming he survived Trafalgar) in command of the British forces in the War of 1812, would it have made any difference, best case scenario for the British (and assuming Wellington makes it back in time for Waterloo)?

Der Fuhrer's 1942 world tour WI at his height in early 1942, Hitler goes on a blitz three week tour of his empire: Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Marseilles, Rome, Tunis, Tripoli, Benghazi, Athens, Crete, Belgrade, Budapest, Sofia, Tirana, Bucharest, Prague, Leningrad, Warsaw...

In Madrid 1992 Bush Sr threatened to block Israel's $10 billion loan guarantees if Shamir placed the new 1 million Russian Jewish immigrants in the West Bank, Golan and Gaza. Shamir blinked. What if Shamir called Bush's bluff. Would Bush risk the wrath of the US Jewish establishment? Would he...

1966 was only 21 years after the end of WWII, and most spectators at Wembley World Cup had lived or fought through it, and the West Germans were still quietly reviled as "the Huns" and "the Nazis". Few can forget the groan, scream even, from the crowd when Germany scored the first goal...