- Publication: What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have BeenPublication Record # 317054
- Author: Robert Cowley
- Date: 1999-00-00
- ISBN: 0-399-14576-1 [978-0-399-14576-6]
- Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Pages: xiv+395
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: NONFICTION
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Notes: Book Design: Carla Bolte Maps: Jeffrey L. Ward Title and Chapter Opener Art: Foto Marburg
Nonfiction Title:
What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been • nonfiction by Robert Cowley
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xi • Introduction (What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been) • essay by Robert Cowley
- 1 • Infectious Alternatives: The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 01 B.C. • essay by William H. McNeill
- 13 • A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders • essay by Barbara N. Porter
- 15 • No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B.C. • essay by Victor Davis Hanson
- 37 • Conquest Denied: The Premature Death of Alexander the Great • essay by Josiah Ober
- 57 • Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 • essay by Lewis Lapham
- 71 • The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats • essay by Barry S. Strauss
- 93 • The Death That Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back, 1242 • essay by Cecelia Holland
- 107 • If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s • essay by Theodore K. Rabb
- 119 • If the Holy League Hadn't Dithered • essay by Peter Pierson
- 121 • The Immolation of Hernán Cortes: Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 • essay by Ross Hassig
- 139 • The Repulse of the English Fireships: The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588 • essay by Geoffrey Parker
- 155 • Unlikely Victory: Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution • essay by Thomas Fleming
- 187 • George Washington's Gamble • essay by Ira D. Gruber
- 189 • What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 • essay by David McCullough
- 201 • Ruler of the World: Napoleon's Missed Opportunities • essay by Alistair Horne
- 220 • Napoleon Wins at Waterloo • essay by Caleb Carr
- 223 • If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 • essay by James M. McPherson
- 239 • A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios: How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently • essay by Stephen W. Sears
- 259 • Vietnam in America, 1865 • essay by Tom Wicker
- 261 • The What Ifs of 1914: The World War That Should Never Have Been • essay by Robert Cowley
- 288 • Bismarck's Empire: Stillborn • essay by James Chace
- 290 • Thanks, But No Cigar • essay by David Clay Large
- 292 • The Armistice of Desperation • essay by Dennis E. Showalter
- 295 • How Hitler Could Have Won the War: The Drive for the Middle East, 1941 • essay by John Keegan (historian)
- 306 • What a Taxi Driver Wrought • (1998) • short fiction by Williamson Murray
- 308 • Triumph of the Dictators • essay by David Fromkin
- 311 • Our Midway Disaster: Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 • essay by Theodore F. Cook, Jr.
- 340 • The Case of the Missing Carriers • essay by Elihu Rose
- 341 • D Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe • essay by Stephen E. Ambrose
- 349 • The Soviet Invasion of Japan • essay by Robert Cowley
- 351 • Funeral in Berlin: The Cold War Turns Hot • essay by David Clay Large
- 377 • China Without Tears: If Chiang Kai-shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946 • essay by Arthur Waldron
- 393 • A Quagmire Avoided? • essay by Ted Morgan
- 394 • The End • essay by Robert L. O'Connell
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