churchill

Everything happens as OTL, Chamberlain resigns, Halifax declines premiership , Churchill takes office, successful Dunkirk evacuation takes place. Then on June 13th 1940 at Tours, Paul Reynaud's mistress Hélène de Portes stabs Churchill in the throat. His carotid artery is severed and he dies...

Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough marries Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1895. They have two daughters, and divorce in 1921 the Duke marries Gladys Deacon, and their are no children from this marriage (as OTL) The Duke dies in 1934.(as OTL) The peerage(s) and estate at...

What if, in the 1930's, Jews fleeing Germany and Europe were received in greater numbers in countries that avoided Nazi occupation (USA, UK, etc)? Political plausibility aside, how many more could have fled to these countries (ie how many Jews wanted to flee in this timeframe, but couldn't)? And...

A slight variation on the various threads we have about his dying during the war but suppose that Churchill via the vagaries of fate, his cousin the 10th Duke lives longer but dies without an heir or his nephews predecease him, inherited the title of Duke of Marlborough in mid-1944. Whilst I...

Plan Rubber was the codename given to US military plans for the occupation of the Northern coast of Brazil during World War II. The plan was raised in response to concerns that Brazil would enter the war on the side of the Axis, or would at least act in a manner sympathetic to the Axis cause...

Right - I'm working on a new version of my Comrade Cripps timeline (new POD, new direction, generally greater coherence) and I have found that my knowledge of the military side of Britain's war effort is generally lacking. This is causing me quite a few headaches and I thought, with nothing to...

In November 1940, Neville Chamberlain, the former PM of the United Kingdom, died of cancer following his resignation in favour of Winston Churchill earlier that same year. My question is what might have happened in the event of Chamberlain's death prior to the outbreak of the Second World War...