Alternative History

Imagine a Poland that was never partitioned by its neighbors. A state that preserved the Jagiellonian dynasty, became one of Europe's greatest powers, and ...

They really are coming thick and fast. Just a few days ago, I published an alternative Russian tank from the First World War — the 16-ton SB-1, which ...

The First World War marked the birth of the tank. However, despite its enormous army and well-developed engineering tradition, the Russian Empire never managed ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union brought an end to numerous fascinating Soviet defense projects. A lack of funding, the breakdown of industrial cooperation, ...

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 ...