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What if? 2 : eminent historians imagine what might have been : essays /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bradley, James, 1954-, Cowley, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, [2001]
Subjects:
Imaginary wars and battles.
Imaginary histories.
Table of 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 / Carlos M.N. Eire
  • Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 / Cecelia Holland
  • The Chinese discovery of the New World, 15th century / Theodore F. Cook, Jr.
  • Martin Luther burns at the stake, 1521 / Geoffrey Parker
  • If Charles I had not left Whitehall, August 1641 / Theodore K. Rabb
  • Napoléon's invasion of North America / Thomas Fleming
  • If Lincoln had not freed the slaves / Tom Wicker
  • France turns the other cheek, July 1870 / Alistair Horne
  • The election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 / John Lukacs
  • The Great War torpedoed / Robert L. O'Connell
  • No Finland Station / George Feifer
  • The luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Geoffrey C. Ward
  • The War of 1938 / Williamson Murray
  • Prime Minister Halifax / Andrew Roberts
  • The boys who saved Australia, 1942 / James Bradley
  • Enigma uncracked / David Kahn
  • Pius XII protests the Holocaust / Robert Katz
  • VE Day--November 11, 1944 / Caleb Carr
  • The Führer in the dock / Roger Spiller
  • No bomb--no end / Richard B. Frank
  • The presidency of Henry Wallace / James Chace
  • A tale of three congressmen, 1948 / Lance Morrow
  • What if Pizarro had not found potatoes in Peru? / William H. McNeill.