Elsewhere, similar battles in Japan were happening and it would not be long until Japan was able to make a complete breakthrough and recovery. The Japanese had come up with an ingenious idea: every time a soldier would fall, he would drop a grenade. In his pre-invasion speech, the Emperor vowed; In one novel of this type, H. Beam Piper's The cross-time theme was further developed in the 1960s by The concept of a cross-time version of a world war, involving rival paratime empires, was developed in Such "paratime" stories may include speculation that the laws of nature can vary from one universe to the next, providing a science fictional explanation—or veneer—for what is normally fantasy. File:Alternate flag of japan by generalhelghast-d4cwl06.jpg File:Alternate flag of japan by nederbird-d4cry5w.png File:Alternate flag roman japan by akkismat-d3wdnpf.jpg To be sure, it can come about that from now on and hereafter Rome does not exist; for it can be destroyed. They were pushed back into the sea and blood was full into the air of dead American soldiers. Some posit points of divergence, but some also feature magic altering history all along. Another example of counterfactual history was posited by cardinal and I see I must respond finally to what many people, on the basis of your holiness’s [own] judgment, raise as an objection on the topic of this dispute. With the war seemingly ending and the Allies cornering the Japanese, all seemed well and they decide to go forward with a land invasion of Japan. A character from a modern American alternate history Paratime stories published in recent decades often cite the While many justifications for alternate histories involve a In any case, even if it is true that every possible outcome occurs in some world, it can still be argued that traits such as bravery and intelligence might still affect the relative frequency of worlds in which better or worse outcomes occurred (even if the total number of worlds with each type of outcome is infinite, it is still possible to assign a different Many writers—perhaps the majority—avoid the discussion entirely. Alternate history or alternative history (in Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of speculative fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently. Many ambiguous alternate/secret histories are set in Renaissance or pre-Renaissance times, and may explicitly include a "retreat" from the world, which would explain the current absence of such phenomena. With so many men, the U.S Marines were finally able to breach the defences, only to be met by Japanese Banzai soldiers, and soon a ditch-battle proceeded which successfully drove back enemy forces. The late 1980s and the 1990s saw a boom in popular-fiction versions of alternate history, fueled by the emergence of the prolific alternate history author In 1986, a sixteen-part epic comic book series called Perhaps the most incessantly explored theme in popular alternate history focuses on worlds in which Several writers have posited points of departure for such a world but then have injected time splitters from the future or paratime travel, for instance A recent time traveling splitter variant involves entire communities being shifted elsewhere to become the unwitting creators of new time branches.
These communities are transported from the present (or the near-future) to the past or to another time-line via a natural disaster, the action of technologically advanced aliens, or a human experiment gone wrong. But no opinion can grasp how it can come about that it was not founded long ago...One early work of fiction detailing an alternate history is One of the earliest works of alternate history published in large quantities for the reception of a large audience may be In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is The first novel-length alternate history in English would seem to be A number of alternate history stories and novels appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (see, for example, One of the entries in Squire's volume was Churchill's "If Lee Had Not Won [Another example of alternate history from this period (and arguablyIn the 1930s, alternate history moved into a new arena.