Alternate History Channel

What is alternate history?

Alternate (also known as alternative, virtual or counterfactual) history is the 'what if?' of history.

Alternate histories have been explored in both fiction and non-fiction.

What if Hess had successfully brokered a peace between Britain and Germany before the end of the Second World War?

Christopher Priest's The Separation

What if concentration camps had been introduced in the American Civil War?

Maureen F. McHugh's The Lincoln Train

What if World War II had been interrupted by an alien invasion?

Harry Turtledove's World War Series

What If? Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, edited by Robert Cowley