
Counterfactuals: The Battle of the Bulge at Elsenborn Ridge
16/12/2025 | 1h 7 mins.
On today's episode, we talk about a forgotten part of the Battle of the Bulge - Elsenborn Ridge, where outnumbered allied units held against veteran German divisions, and what the chances were that the Reich could have turned the tide in 1944.

Counterfactuals: The Last Invasion of Britain
02/12/2025 | 1h 1 mins.
On today’s episode we talk about what is often called the last invasion of mainland Britain - a disastrous and almost farcical series of blunders that ended in abject disaster. But what if it didn’t?

Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?
18/11/2025 | 1h 9 mins.
Today we talk about the most numerous bird on the planet - the chicken - and how the world might be different if we never domesticated it.

Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy
21/10/2025 | 1h 3 mins.
On today’s episode, we talk about some of the first steel-hulled ships the United States ever built, and how those first few ships might have set the tone for the entire 20th century.

Counterfactuals: The Three Kingdoms - or not?
07/10/2025 | 1h 5 mins.
On today’s episode, we venture to Asia to talk about a battle that determined the course of Chinese history, and that has become such an integral part of Chinese historical mythology that it is sometimes difficult to sort fact from fiction. What might have changed if the battle went a different way?



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