Alternative History

Let us imagine that by the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, Russia had managed to concentrate in Port Arthur not seven battleships and several armored ...

Part I. The Last Evening “A man rarely notices where one chapter of his life ends and another begins. Sometimes the boundary is a river. Sometimes it is a ...

Part I. The Second Rome “Some cities astonish a man with their walls. Others with their palaces. But there are cities that change his very understanding ...

“A man rarely notices when one world ends and another begins. There is no wall, no boundary stone, no river dividing one from the other. You simply wake one ...

Indonesia is rarely seen as a future great power, even though it possesses almost everything required to become one: a huge population, a growing economy, ...

  France is rightly considered by many to be the cradle of aviation. In the late 19th century and during the early years of aviation, it was in ...

Continuing the story about the Soviet “X” heavy cruisers, I’d like to present an alternative scenario in which the 240-mm main-caliber guns were, in fact, put ...

Long before German engineers turned their talents to the extravagant and highly “optimistic” designs of World War II heavy tanks, they were already working on ...

  Editor's Foreword: Built of wood to conserve aluminum—which, it was feared, would be in short supply during the war—the Curtiss C-76 Caravan ...

The history of Soviet tank development ended at perhaps its most interesting moment. By the late 1980s, the USSR simultaneously possessed several powerful ...