Episodes

  • Counterfactuals: The Battle of the Bulge at Elsenborn Ridge

    Counterfactuals: The Battle of the Bulge at Elsenborn Ridge
    Dec 16 2025
    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.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Counterfactuals: The Last Invasion of Britain

    Counterfactuals: The Last Invasion of Britain
    Dec 2 2025
    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?
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?

    Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?
    Nov 18 2025
    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.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy

    Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy
    Oct 21 2025
    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.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Counterfactuals: The Three Kingdoms - or not?

    Counterfactuals: The Three Kingdoms - or not?
    Oct 7 2025
    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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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Counterfactuals: Just How Foundational IS Concrete?

    Counterfactuals: Just How Foundational IS Concrete?
    Sep 24 2025
    On today’s episode we talk about one of the most ubiquitous human creations in the modern world: Concrete. What would the modern world look like without this grey material we all take for granted?
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Counterfactuals: Roosevelt and Churchill at Christmas, 1941

    Counterfactuals: Roosevelt and Churchill at Christmas, 1941
    Sep 9 2025
    On today’s episode, we talk about a little-remembered presidential visit in the wake of Pearl Harbor - Christmas, 1941, when Winston Churchill risked the U-boats of the Atlantic to visit his new allies in the White House.
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    1 hr
  • Counterfacutals: WWI and The Battle of the Gulf of Riga

    Counterfacutals: WWI and The Battle of the Gulf of Riga
    Aug 26 2025
    Today we talk about a little remembered battle that could have been a turning point in the First World War - a battle between the German High Seas fleet and the Russian Baltic fleet in the Gulf of Riga.
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    1 hr and 7 mins