| Description |
xvii, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Socrates dies at Delium, 424 B.C. / Victor Davis Hanson -- Not by a nose : the triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 B.C. / Josiah Ober -- Pontius Pilate spares Jesus : Christianity without the Crucifixion / Carlos M.N. Eire -- Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 : William does not conquer England / Cecelia Holland -- The Chinese discovery of the New World, 15th century: What the expeditions of eunuch admiral might have led to / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- Martin Luther burns at the stake, 1521 : "Oh God, is Luther dead?"/ Geoffrey Parker -- If Charles I had not left Whitehall, August 1641: As a starter, no English civil war / Theodore K. Rabb -- Napoléon's invasion of North America: Aedes aegypti takes a holiday / Thomas Fleming -- If Lincoln had not freed the slaves: The inevitable results of Emancipation Proclamation / Tom Wicker -- France turns the other cheek, July 1870:The needless war with Prussia / Alistair Horne -- The election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912: Brokering an earlier end to WW I/John Lukacs -- The Great War torpedoed: The weapon that could have won the war for Germany in 1915 / Robert L. O'Connell -- No Finland Station: A Russian revolution without Lenin? / George Feifer -- The luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Seven might-not-have-beens on the road to the presidency / Geoffrey C. Ward -- The War of 1938: Chamberlain fails to sway Hitler at Munich /Williamson Murray -- Prime Minister Halifax : Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 / Andrew Roberts -- The boys who saved Australia, 1942: Small events can have large results / James Bradley -- Enigma uncracked: The Allies fail to break the German cipher machine / David Kahn -- Pius XII protests the Holocaust: Could the wartime pope have prevented the final solution? / Robert Katz -- VE Day--November 11, 1944: THe unleashing of Patton and Montgomery / Caleb Carr -- The Führer in the dock: A speculation on the banality of evil / Roger Spiller -- No bomb--no end : the Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 / Richard B. Frank -- The presidency of Henry Wallace: If FDR had not dumped his vice president in1944 / James Chace -- A tale of three congressmen, 1948 : America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy / Lance Morrow -- What if Pizarro had not found potatoes in Peru?: The humble roots of history /William H. McNeill. |
| Subject |
Imaginary wars and battles.
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Imaginary histories.
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| Added Author |
Bradley, James, 1954-
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Cowley, Robert.
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| Added Title |
What if? two |
| ISBN |
0399147950 |
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