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  1. Culmination Point: No Halt Order at Dunkirk

    Culmination Point Excerpts from the Diary of Unteroffizier Wendell Lilienthal, Commander of the Panzer IV, Ausf. C. 131. “Otto Lott.” of the 1st Panzer Division during Fall Gelb, 1940 May 9 Confirmation at last! For days we have been busy with our preparations, wondering whether...

  2. The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL
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    Il Giorno del Leone 'It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.' ~ Benito Mussolini

  3. Whitewash, or: How Poland Defeated the Blitzkrieg in 1939

    The disastrous German attempt to invade Poland in the Autumn of 1939 has often been a source of derision and even comedy for western audiences, to the extent that the historical record of the German-Polish war itself has been blurred behind an internet blur of bombastic Hitler quotes before...

  4. Point of No Return: A Vignette

    Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a party animal. Lubyanka was abuzz with the latest news coming throughout the world and as the typewriters clattered and admonishing voices screamed over to each other the scene resembled more of a newspaper office than the centre of Soviet intelligence. It was a...

  5. Despite it all!: A Vignette

    Kiev, 1943 Stepan Bandera knew he was going to die tonight. The President of the Ukrainian State had expected to be afraid, he had been before, but now all he felt was a sense of surprise. It was difficult to tell whether it was in reaction to the firefight now going on around the isolated...

  6. The Big Beat Manifesto: A Vignette

    "You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." "Oi! Oi!" Jeremy Paxman could only roll his eyes as his guest for the night entered the studio. The man strode towards him like a cat burglar trying to avoid creaking floor boards, an imposing...

  7. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?
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    'But the civilised human spirit, whether one calls it bourgeois or merely leaves it at civilised, cannot get rid of a feeling of the uncanny.' ~ Dr Faustus, Thomas Mann ‘The world is one of an ever present struggle, our struggle. The German nation stands at a precipice, the working...

  8. Seamus Guevara: A Vignette

    It was a beautiful piece of art and it was clear that the lads had done this sort of thing beforehand, though Gerry wondered what else they might have been up to throughout their lives, and what might change now. Thanks to the man painted on the wall, it was finally over. The mural seemed to...

  9. AH Vignette: The End of Socialism

    John hadn’t been having the best week but this was ridiculous. The house was empty. He was Prime Minister and Downing Street was utterly empty. Except for himself, of course. He’d slept in late despite the fact he was busy that day, the bastards were out to get him again and this time it...

  10. Taranto/Pearl style attack on the IJN?

    Can't stop the bandwagon, might as well join it. In terms of broad strokes, the IJA increases their influence even more during the thirties, Nomonhan never quite becomes the decisive Soviet victory it was in OTL, the IJN's argument for 'Go South' is weaker than in OTL, hyper inflation hits KMT...

  11. AH Vignette: "I only hope what pleases me will also pleasure you"

    The shadowy figure hung over him for a brief moment before he realised he was at home. “Oh hello there!” Brendan smiled down at Drew, before continuing to move his hands through the pile of old books that seemed to go forever. Seemingly satisfied, he leaned over Drew one more to kiss him...

  12. AH Vignette: 'Careless Talk Costs Lives'

    "Mr Redwood! Please!" Jonathan Dimbleby had already lost control of the situation, the fact that a moderator would be begging the troublemaker to stop had already made it clear there was no real moderation going on at all. "I'm very sorry Mr Dimbleby but these are facts the public must know...

  13. Round and Round the Garden

    If only I had a mother as the ancients had - my mother, mine, for whom I should be not the Builder of the Integral, and not D-530, not a molecule of the United State, but merely a living human piece, a piece of herself, a trampled, smothered, cast-off piece ... And though I were driving the...

  14. The Grim, the Dark, and the Edgy: A TLIAD

    Pfft Yes? Nice title, going for some originality I see? Clearly not seeing as you're here. Oooh you can do italics as well as grimness, any other amazing revelations? The colour of any object is within the light it reflects. Congratulations, you've done Standard Grade Physics, would you...

  15. Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945?

    Prelude: It's Always Darkest Before It Goes Completely Black Japan was finished as a warmaking nation, in spite of its four million men still under arms. But...Japan was not going to quit. Despite the fact that she was militarily finished, Japan's leaders were going to fight right on. To not...

  16. "I Only Know What I Believe": A PFITLIAD

    The 2001 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in the United Kingdom was devastating both for British Agriculture and Tourism. In early 2001, after a five year slump, hopeful signs of growth were beginning to emerge in farming communities, before the spread of the high contagious virus forced...

  17. Hung, Drawn, and Quattroed

    May 6th, 2015 As he shook hands with his bizarrely bearded interviewer, and gave a courteous nod to the beaming Welshman he'd been sat next to for the last gruelling hour, he ritually removed his microphone as quickly as possible. For David Cameron, the man who seemed so destined to be Prime...

  18. Could Moscow have survived a Nuclear War?

    In the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty both the United States and Soviet Union agreed to limit their use of Anti-Ballistic Missile systems, reducing the number of sites to one per party. Whilst the Americans chose Grand Froks Air Froce in North Dakota, the Soviets chose Moscow, where they...

  19. The Triumph and the Sorrow: The 1944 US Presidential Election and Beyond

    November 9th, 1944 The President poured himself a belt of brown inside his White House den. As he lifted the beveled rocks glass to his lips he observed the cubes of ice clinking around the liquid, like little boats in a sea of blood soaked water. He took his first sip, and realised he was...

  20. WI: The British Union of Fascists contested the 1935 UK General Election?

    Whilst not as powerful as their sister movements in Germany, Italy, France and other nations of Nineteen Thirties Europe, the British Union of Fascists, led by the charismatic Oswald Mosley, a former Labour Cabinet minister, seemed to have a bright future ahead of them. Boasting between...
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