What if Britain & France had backed the Confederacy in the American Civil War?

What if Britain & France had backed the Confederacy in the American Civil War?

On this episode of History Undone, Fergus Macphee is joined by Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry & Professor Adam Smith to discuss the decision by Britain and France not to officially enter the American Civil War. Both European nations had commercial and diplomatic interests within the Confederacy and their neutrality was not guaranteed. So after the Trent Affair in 1861, how close did the British Empire come to fighting against the Union? This is History Undone.

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What if Hitler had taken the Mediterranean & Middle East? ‘Game over’ for the Soviet Union…. | History Undone

What if Hitler had taken the Mediterranean & Middle East? ‘Game over’ for the Soviet Union…. | History Undone

On this episode of History Undone, Fergus Macphee is joined by Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry and Dr Klaus Schmider to discuss a plan that Nazi Germany never went through with. At the end of 1940, Hitler...

22 Mai 55min

What if the Iranian Revolution NEVER happened? A nuclear Middle East & allies with the US

What if the Iranian Revolution NEVER happened? A nuclear Middle East & allies with the US

On this episode of History Undone, our new host Fergus Macphee is joined by Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry and Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi to discuss one of the most important moments in the history of the...

17 Apr 59min

What if China had NEVER become Communist? A split nation, but still a global superpower

What if China had NEVER become Communist? A split nation, but still a global superpower

On this edition of History Undone, Fergus Macphee is joined by Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry to discuss China's Civil War and the rise of the Chinese Communist Party. The scale and the figures involved ...

3 Apr 54min

What if Napoleon had WON The Battle of Leipzig? No First World War or modern day Germany

What if Napoleon had WON The Battle of Leipzig? No First World War or modern day Germany

On this episode of History Undone, Fergus Macphee is joined by Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry and Dr Michael Rowe to discuss one of Napoleon's greatest defeats at the Battle of Leipzig. It was the larges...

20 Mar 49min

What if Japan had invaded the Soviet Union NOT Pearl Harbor? World at war into the 1950s

What if Japan had invaded the Soviet Union NOT Pearl Harbor? World at war into the 1950s

On this episode of History Undone, Darryl Morris is joined by channel favourites Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry and Jonathan Parshall to discuss the 'Kantokuen', or in other words, the drawn up Japanese ...

6 Mar 55min

What if the Cuban missile crisis went hot & Soviet sub B-59 had fired its torpedos?

What if the Cuban missile crisis went hot & Soviet sub B-59 had fired its torpedos?

On this edition of History Undone, Darryl Morris is joined by Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry and Professor Sergey Radchenko to discuss the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and one of its most mythologised mo...

20 Feb 1h 5min

What if Russia had WON the Battle of Tsushima? No Pearl Harbor & a totally different WWI

What if Russia had WON the Battle of Tsushima? No Pearl Harbor & a totally different WWI

On this episodes of History Undone, Darryl Morris, Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry & Drachinifel discuss one of the most important moments of naval warfare: The Battle of Tsushima. The encounter that effe...

6 Feb 57min

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