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What If?

The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Robert Cowley - Editor

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ISBN 9780425176429 | 416 pages | 01 Sep 2000 | Berkley | 6.02 x 8.93in | 18 - AND UP
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With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of the past, this amazing book of essays ponders what might have been if things had gone differently in history. Featuring Stephen J. Ambrose, John Keegan, and many others.
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Introduction by Robert Cowley

Infectious Alternatives - William H. McNeil
The Plague that Saved Jerusalem, 701 B.C.
A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders - Barbara N. Porter

No Glory That Was Greece - Victor Davis Hanson
The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B.C.

Conquest Denied - Josiah Ober
The Premature Death of Alexander the Great

Furor Teutonicus - The Teutoburg
Forest, A.D. 9 - Lewis H. Lapham

The Dark Ages Made Lighter - Barry S. Strauss
The Consequences of Two Defeats

The Death That Saved Europe - Cecelia Holland
The Mongols Turn Back, 1242

If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer - Theodore K. Rabb
The Critical Decade of the 1520s
If the Holy League Hadn't Dithered - Peter Pierson

The Immolation of Hernán Cortés - Ross Hassig
Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521

The Repulse of the English Fireships - Geoffrey Parker
The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588

Unlikely Victory - Thomas Fleming
Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution
George Washington's Gamble - Ira D. Gruber

What the Fog Wrought - David McCullough
The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776

Ruler of the World - Alistair Horne
Napoleon's Missed Opportunities
Napoleon Wins at Waterloo - Caleb Carr

If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost - James M. McPherson
Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862

A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios - Stephen W. Sears
How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently
Vietnam in America, 1865 - Tom Wicker

The What Ifs of 1914 - Robert Cowley
The World War That Should Have Never Been
Bismarck's Empire: Stillborn - James Chace
Thanks, But No Cigar - David Clay Large
The Armistice of Desperation - Dennis E. Showalter

How Hitler Could Have Won the War - John Keegan
The Drive for the Middle East, 1941
What a Taxi Driver Wrought - Williamson Murray
Triumph of the Dictators - David Fromkin

Our Midway Disaster - Theodore F. Cook, Jr.
Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942
The Case of the Missing Carriers - Elihu Rose

D Day Fails - Stephen A. Ambrose
Atomic Alternatives in Europe
The Soviet Invasion of Japan - Robert Cowley

Funeral in Berlin - David Clay Large
The Cold War Turns Hot

China Without Tears - Arthur Waldron
If Chiang Kai-shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946
A Quagmire Avoided? - Ted Morgan
The End - Robert L. O'Connell


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