Alternative History

In late 1938, British naval intelligence received detailed information about the Japanese “Yamato”-class super-battleships. The information, obtained through ...

“When I was a boy, I thought war was made up of battles. Later I learned that a battle lasts only a few minutes. The rest of the time, a soldier lives, works, ...

“The monastery taught me how to pray. The conroi taught me how to live among men. And, I confess, the latter proved far more difficult than the former.” ...

The history of the Soviet Navy has several “ghosts” — ships that were laid down but never raised their ensign from the gaff because they were never ...

The Soviet BT series of fast tanks became one of the most recognizable symbols of the Red Army of the 1930s. Based on the ideas of American designer J. ...

Marking the 80th anniversary of the IS-4—the heaviest of the Soviet mass-produced tanks—entering service There is a well-known saying that generals ...

  Unlike the Eastern Front, where most air battles took place at medium or low altitudes (sometimes even just above the ground), air battles in ...

An article from the "Personal Opinions" channel on Yandex Zen.   In his books about society in the distant communist future, Efremov set himself ...

“Sometimes God reveals a new road to a man in the most ordinary of ways. In my case, it happened because of an empty cup of wine.” From the writings of Ansel ...

The August sun of 1904 beat down mercilessly, turning the surface of the sea into a molten mirror across which steel silhouettes glided. Heavy, gunpowder-laden ...