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245 00 $aWhat if? :$bthe world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been : essays /$cby Stephen E. Ambrose [and others] ; edited by Robert Cowley.
260 $aNew York :$bG.P. Putnam's Sons,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axiv, 395 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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505 00 $tIntroduction /$rRobert Cowley --$tInfectious Alternatives: The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 701 B.C. /$rWilliam H. McNeill --$tA Good Night's Sleep can do Wonders /$rBarbara N. Porter --$tNo Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B. C. /$rVictor Davis Hanson --$tConquest Denied: The Premature Death of Alexander the Great /$rJosiah Ober --$tFuror Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 /$rLewis H. Lapham --$tThe Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats /$rBarry S. Strauss --$tThe Death That Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back, 1242 /$rCecelia Holland --$tIf Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s /$rTheodore K. Rabb --$tIf the Holy League Hadn't Dithered /$rPeter Pierson --$tThe Immolation of Hernan Cortes: Tenochtitlan, June 30, 1521 /$rRoss Hassig --$tThe Repulse of the English Fireships: The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588 /$rGeoffrey Parker --
505 80 $tUnlikely Victory: Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution /$rThomas Fleming --$tGeorge Washington's Gamble /$rIra D. Gruber --$tWhat the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 /$rDavid McCullough --$tRuler of the World: Napoleon's Missed Opportunities /$rAlistair Horne --$tNapoleon Wins at Waterloo /$rCaleb Carr --$tIf the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 /$rJames M. McPherson --$tA Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios: How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently /$rStephen W. Sears --$tVietnam in America, 1865 /$rTom Wicker --$tThe What Ifs of 1914: The World War That Should Never Have Been /$rRobert Cowley --$tBismarck's Empire: Stillborn /$rJames Chace --$tThanks, But no Cigar /$rDavid Clay Large --$tThe Armistice of Desperation /$rDennis E. Showalter --$tHow Hitler Could Have Won the War: The Drive for the Middle East, 1941 /$rJohn Keegan --$tWhat a Taxi Driver Wrought /$rWilliamson Murray --
505 80 $tTriumph of the Dictators /$rDavid Fromkin --$tOur Midway Disaster: Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 /$rTheodore F. Cook, Jr. --$tThe Case of the Missing Carriers /$rElihu Rose --$tD Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe /$rStephen E. Ambrose --$tThe Soviet Invasion of Japan /$rRobert Cowley --$tFuneral in Berlin: The Cold War Turns Hot /$rDavid Clay Large --$tChina Without Tears: If Chiang Kai-shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946 /$rArthur Waldron --$tA Quagmire Avoided? /$rTed Morgan --$tThe End /$rRobert L. O'Connell.
520 1 $a"Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-its of history. In these twenty never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"In addition to the essays, fifteen sidebars by such authors as Caleb Carr, Tom Wicker, David Fromkin, and Ted Morgan illuminate in brief other world-changing episodes."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aImaginary wars and battles.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064465
650 0 $aImaginary histories.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064459
700 1 $aCowley, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82085794
700 1 $aAmbrose, Stephen E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79138556
852 00 $boff,glx$hD25.5$i.W44 1999