An edition of What if?: the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been : essays
(1999)
What if?
the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been : essays
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
by Robert Cowley, Stephen E. Ambrose, John Keegan, David McCullough, and James M. McPherson
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"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.
"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.
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What if?: the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been : essays
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Table of Contents
Infectious alternatives / William H. McNeill
A good night's sleep can do wonders / Barbara N. Porter
No glory that was Greece / Victor Davis Hanson
Conquest denied / Josiah Ober
Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 / Lewis H. Lapham
The Dark Ages made lighter / Barry S. Strauss
The death that saved Europe / Cecelia Holland
If only it had not been such a wet summer / Theodore K. Rabb
The immolation of Hernan Cortes / Ross Hassig
The repulse of the English fireships / Geoffrey Parker
Unlikely victory / Thomas Fleming
George Washington's gamble / Ira D. Gruber
What the fog wrought / David McCullough
Ruler of the world / Alistair Horne
Napoleon wins at Waterloo / Caleb Carr
If the lost order hadn't been lost / James M. McPherson
A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios / Stephen W. Sears
Vietnam in America, 1865 / Tom WIcker
The what ifs of 1914 / Robert Cowley
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
What a taxi driver wrought / WilliamsonMurray
Triumph of the dictators / David Fromkin
Our Midway disaster / Theodore F. Cook, Jr.
The case of the missing carriers / Elihu Rose
D Day fails / Stephen E. Ambrose
The Soviet invasion of Japan / Robert Cowley
Funeral in Berlin / David Clay Large
China without tears / Arthur Waldron
A quagmire avoided? /Ted Morgan
The end / Robert O'Connell
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