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In July and August 1943, one of the colossal battles of the Second World War raged over a vast space in western Russia and eastern Ukraine. The Battle of Kursk has been argued by many historians to be a key point in the Great Patriotic War, the moment when the initiative shifted irrevocably from...

It doesn't square well with the old Fischer stuff because Fischer legendarily oversold the meaning of his data and at the same time ignored the other Great Powers to focus on Germany to the exclusion of all else. This was not even a good approach to the outbreak of the Second World War, which...

So the new Christopher Nolan joint got a teaser trailer! yM9BWtppzko It is appropriately artsy and period-y with ticking Hans Zimmer clocks and the sound of Ju-87s. Other than that, it doesn't show much. THAT SAID! It is a Nolan joint (with all that that entails), it is about the...

Arthur Conan Doyle published several series of short stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, the indefatigable crime-solving duo, but in addition to these he wrote four longer serial stories of roughly novel length. A Study in Scarlet was the first story, which...

So, as of yesterday, Bond 23 now has a title: Skyfall. It has a release date: 26OCT2012. It also has more of a cast. We've got Javier Bardem as the Big Bad (or the Dragon to Ralph Fiennes, who will also be a bad guy of indeterminate nature). Naomie Harris will be playing a "field agent" of...

I have, for a very long time, made noises about posting a history article on the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Unfortunately, I am very lazy and, worse, very distracted by summer classes, screwing around, the American Civil War, and Dragon Age II (in that order). Since I've been...

Introduction If you know anything about the First World War, it's probably reduced to two words: "trench warfare". If there's a third word, it's probably "pointless". The image reinforced by six episodes of classic Blackadder, All Quiet on the Western Front, Goodbye to All That, and other...

Chúc mừng sinh nhật! [party] :bday:

Chúc mừng sinh nhật! [party] :bday:

Chúc mừng sinh nhật! [party] :bday:

Introduction In 1914, the United Kingdom was - probably - saved from civil war by jumping headfirst into the First World War. Classic example of "out of the frying pan, into the fire". Of all the things to fight a civil war over, though, the Brits decided to pick Ireland. The whole thing has an...

DaNES II – When the Stars Fall The deadline for Turn 5 orders is 0300 GMT ON THE MORNING OF FRIDAY MAY 21 2010. Introduction This is a NES, set in the Eastern Hemisphere of an Earth quite different from our own, still in the throes of the great era of migrations. In the Mediterranean...

DaNES II - Title TBD This is a preview thread for a NES I intend to run starting next Wednesday. Stats, rules, and so forth have been developed in the NES dev thread, and are available to peruse below. The primary function of this thread, though, isn't to drum up enthusiasm (though that'd be...

Introduction Of all of the events in the Thirty Years' War, save the Defenestration that started it, the things that get the most attention are the ones surrounding the King of Sweden, Gustav II Adolf ("Gustavus Adolphus") and his brief but revolutionary entry into the German war. West Point...

Because the other one went over 100 pages. :p This is a thread to post ideas, timelines, maps, and all manner of discussion about alternate history topics. It'd be cool if people made NESes out of some of these too. Here's some jargon that people commonly use here: PoD - Point of...

Introduction After the Fourth Crusade of 1204, a collection of successor states to the Byzantine Empire popped up around the Aegean basin, shattering the tradition of unified government that had prevailed since the time of the Roman Republic. The result was devastating conflict on all parts...

Introduction Immediately after the death of Alexander the Great, his generals fell to division of the spoils, namely an empire that stretched from Greece to Egypt to the Indus River, the family of Alexander himself (valuable pawns in the power struggle to ensue), and the army that had made it...

This thread is mostly to carry over some open musing in the history questions thread about the period of the Northern Wars (1558-1809), especially why the conflicts turned out why they did: first with Polish-Lithuanian marginalization and Danish-Norwegian decline, and then the slow eclipse of...

Introduction The classical era was a time of warfare, and nowhere can this be evinced better than in a look at the state of Sparta. From a confused beginning, shrouded in myth and legend, that city rose to preeminence among the cities of the Greek world, and famously proved its...

DaNES I: At the Precipice Please don't post yet, or I may be forced to resort to nasty measures. Setting Once again, an althistorical NES has come, to wreak havoc upon those who dwell in cradles. The year is 1926, and twilight is descending over Europe. The United States’ Civil War...