What If? The World's Foremost Historians

With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of the past, this amazing book of essays ponders what might have been if things had gone differently in history. Featuring Stephen J. Ambrose, John Keegan, and many others.

Robert Cowley is the founding editor of the award-winning MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, whose tenth-anniversary issue inspired this book. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing, and lives in New York City and Connecticut.

List of Illustrations

ix

Introduction

xi

Robert Cowley

Infectious Alternatives

1

(14)

William H. McNeill

No Glory That Was Greece

15

(22)

Victor Davis Hanson

Conquest Denied

37

(20)

Josiah Ober

Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg

57

(14)

Lewis H. Lapham

The Dark Ages Made Lighter

71

(22)

Barry S. Strauss

The Death That Saved Europe

93

(14)

Cecelia Holland

If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer

107

(14)

Theodore K. Rabb

The Immolation of Hernan Cortes

121

(18)

Ross Hassig

The Repulse of the English Fireships

139

(16)

Geoffrey Parker

Unlikely Victory

155

(34)

Thomas Fleming

What the Fog Wrought

189

(12)

David McCullough

Ruler of the World

201

(22)

Alistair Horne

If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost

223

(16)

James M. McPherson

A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios

239

(22)

Stephen W. Sears

The What Ifs of 1914

261

(34)

Robert Cowley

How Hitler Could Have Won the War

295

(16)

John Keegan

Our Midway Disaster

311

(30)

Theodore F. Cook, Jr.

D Day Fails

341

(10)

Stephen E. Ambrose

Funeral in Berlin

351

(26)

David Clay Large

China Without Tears

377

Arthur Waldron

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What If? The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

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