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Questions by Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a relatively tight-knit online community. Sea...

By David Flin We’ve all done it. We’ve used a similar word to the one we intended, creating a different meaning. We’ve misspelt a word,...

By David Flin Alternate History will often present modified terminology for things, to demonstrate how the world is different. Tom...

By David Flin You expect fiction to make adjustments to historical accuracy because “everyone knows” something different. In an earlier...

By David Flin Writing an Alternate History story involves picking a viewpoint. You can use different viewpoints, but generally, they are...

By David Flin I confess that this particular article has been inspired by my recent reading of half of a book. It was one of those...

By David Flin Charles Lewis was glad to be home. He’d been one of the 380,000 black soldiers who had served in the US Army during the...

By David Flin We’ve all seen it. The plot requires something to happen, and the villain or a sidekick duly obliges with the necessary...

By David Flin Of the seven American aviators who won the Croix de Guerre in the First World War, six were human. In the Smithsonian...

By David Flin On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...

By David Flin Everyone knows about the Christmas Truce. This was not an isolated incident, although it is the best known. At the start of...

By David Flin In the last article in this series, I wrote about the need to be prepared to kill off characters if the plot and tone...

By David Flin It’s perhaps the single best-known incident from the First World War. The unofficial Christmas Day truce of 1914 where...

By David Flin There are people who believe that poker is just a matter of bluff, and that there’s no real skill involved. I like playing...

By David Flin Sergeant Rock McHardman, a combat veteran of 26 action adventure novels without any redeeming features, looked down into...

By David Flin In the TV sitcom Dad’s Army, it is revealed that Private Godfrey had been a Conscientious Objector during the First World...

By David Flin “So, if from 1933, Nazi Germany starts building up its surface fleet, with aircraft carriers, and building lots of landing...

By David Flin Descriptions of the First World War generally revolve around the Western Front, with a few excursions into fighting on the...

By David Flin How many times have you seen it? The villains come up with a scheme that has more holes than Swiss cheese, or they ignore...

By David Flin I could not look on Death, which being known Men led me to him, blindfold and alone. Kipling: Epitaphs of War. The Coward....