world war 2

Let's say that instead of the Battle of Britian, the Germans decide on a different strategy to knock the UK out of the war. What could they have realistically done to acheive this result?

So this map: was accidentally put in a Danish history textbook. What POD(s) could be done to make it real. I think some effects of this would be a weaker Soviet Union, and that it would have turned into a liberal democracy earlier than 1988 (the year it reformed through nationwide vote OTL)...

In 1944 the Icelandic Althing dissolve the union between Iceland and Denmark and declared itself a republic. What is the Fareo islands followed suit and declared itself an independant republic. In such a scenario how would the Fareoese declaration be met by the international community? How...

Just thinking here, What if (a) the watertight compartments are properally tested and rubber supplied for the doors, and then either the IJN Shinano was never intercepted by the USS Archer-Fish or survives after being hit by 4 to 6 fish to makes Kure? I have no doubt that she would survive the...

If we assume that Germany attacks Poland at roughly the same time as in OTL, what effect would this have on Spain if the Civil War was still going on? Would Spain be dragged into WW2? The republican government would clearly have an interest in this, as it might mean military help from the allied...

So ITTL, Soviets take over Eastern Poland (like in OTL), Turkey, Iran, Finland, AFghanistan, all Arabian province nations (except for kuwait, stupid UK) and Iraq (what i took over in hoi4 before germany attacked). At this time, japan defeats the ROC and PRC and makes various puppet states...

What if during Russian Civil War, Poland had not decided to invade western lands and spark Polish-Soviet War, thus preventing it from gaining Western Belarus and Ukrainian lands? How would it go? Would Stalin later retry to take all of Poland or he'd leave it alone like he did after Treaty of...

How would an independant Tyrol affect the relationship between Austria, Germany and Italy? Was there ever a chance that Tyrol might become independant? Would the Allies and Soviet Union have any intrest in a independant Tyrol? Would a independant Tyrol begin a new national identity project to...

OTL: At the Yalta conference the allies agreed to repatriate all soviet citizens to the Soviet Union. Amonge these citizens were the Lienz Cossacks. Nikolai Tolstoy quotes a General Alexander telegram, sent to the Combined Chiefs of Staff, noting "50,000 Cossacks including 11,000 women...

The Year, 2026. The world is a grim and dark place, with only small flashes of light sputtering on the globe. In the West, the Monolithic United States stands strong as a corporatist empire, leading the objectivist movement through the Freedom Coalition. Dominating most of Eurasia stands...

Not many people know this about the Spanish Civil War, and it's a fact that many history buffs can tend to forget, but in the beginning of the conflict it wasn't Francisco Franco who was tapped to lead the Nationalist Forces, rather it was Marshal Jose Sanjurjo a Spanish general who played a key...

A concept which I've kicked around for awhile was the idea of an Italy that remains active, but ultimately neutral in WWII, and goes on to establish stronger economic ties to the other authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe. Portugal, for example, had issues with securing its interests, both...

As you may know, after the 1917 Revolution; Russia for the whole 20th century remained as a socialist nation which sparked many changes and an infamous Cold War. But what if instead of a communist Marxist-Lenin revolution there was just an anti-war settlement rebellion that had an intention just...

Hiroo Onoda was an average Imperial Japanese soldier, sent to defend Lubang Island in the Philippines in 1944, during Japans mission to defend the home islands. Trained in Guerrilla warfare, and intelligence gathering. His commander told him to live off the land and forbade him to not commit...

So I've always been wondering what the state of Turkey would be after an Axis victory. Mussolini who wants to restore the Roman empire would need Constantinople to be legitimate. He has Rome, so if he gets Constantinople, and his Mediterranean empire would be closer to reality. But this could...

What the title says what if the Soviets were unable to successfully move their major industry past the urals and the unthinkable feat remains unthinkable does this have a major effect on the war? Does it change anything?

I don't know if this is ASB, but seeing as there aren't many Saudi Arabian alternate histories, I thought I'd mix it up. So, After the Ottoman empire fell, and Ataturk reformed Turkey, it became fully Turkish, and never expanded into the Balkans, or down south. That left a power vacuum, that...

Background During World war 2 there was a group of Native Americans called the "American Indian Federation" These native Americans were Nazi Sympathizers. This is an untold story of World war 2. They were fascist Sympathizers and supporters of the Nazi Powers. In fact, the leading member...

I know it sounds ASB, and it probably is, but what would an Imperial Japanese/East Asian/Pacific/Whatever you wanna call it version of Calbear's The Anglo/American-Nazi War TL look like?

Hi all, I hope this is the right place to put this, but was just wondering if anyone has any good sources on accounts by the crews of bombers and tanks during the Second World War? The more personal the better, as I'm more interested in the day to day and emotions of it than the larger theory...