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9780425176429

What If? The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

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  • ISBN13:

    9780425176429

  • ISBN10:

    0425176428

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Berkley Trade

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Robert Cowley is the founding editor of the award-winning MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, whose tenth-anniversary issue inspired this book. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing, and lives in New York City and Connecticut.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction xi
Robert Cowley
Infectious Alternatives
1(14)
William H. McNeill
No Glory That Was Greece
15(22)
Victor Davis Hanson
Conquest Denied
37(20)
Josiah Ober
Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg
57(14)
Lewis H. Lapham
The Dark Ages Made Lighter
71(22)
Barry S. Strauss
The Death That Saved Europe
93(14)
Cecelia Holland
If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer
107(14)
Theodore K. Rabb
The Immolation of Hernan Cortes
121(18)
Ross Hassig
The Repulse of the English Fireships
139(16)
Geoffrey Parker
Unlikely Victory
155(34)
Thomas Fleming
What the Fog Wrought
189(12)
David McCullough
Ruler of the World
201(22)
Alistair Horne
If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost
223(16)
James M. McPherson
A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios
239(22)
Stephen W. Sears
The What Ifs of 1914
261(34)
Robert Cowley
How Hitler Could Have Won the War
295(16)
John Keegan
Our Midway Disaster
311(30)
Theodore F. Cook, Jr.
D Day Fails
341(10)
Stephen E. Ambrose
Funeral in Berlin
351(26)
David Clay Large
China Without Tears
377
Arthur Waldron

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