What if? 2 : eminent historians imagine what might have been : essays /
What if? 2 : eminent historians imagine what might have been : essays / [print]
by James Bradley [and others] ; edited by Robert Cowley.
- New York : Putnam, (c)2001.
- xvii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Sequel to: What if?
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 Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 The Chinese discovery of the New World, 15th century If Charles I had not left Whitehall, August 1641 Napoleon's invasion of North America If Lincoln had not freed the slaves France turns the other cheek, July 1870 The election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 The Great War torpedoed No Finland Station The luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt The War of 1938 Prime Minister Halifax : Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 The boys who saved Australia, 1942 Enigma uncracked Pius XII protests the Holocaust VE Day--November 11, 1944 The Fuhrer in the dock No bomb--no end : the Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 The presidency of Henry Wallace A tale of three congressmen, 1948 : America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy What if Pizarro had not found potatoes in Peru? / William H. McNeill. Carlos M.N. Eire -- Cecelia Holland -- Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- Martin Luther burns at the stake, 1521 Geoffrey Parker -- Theodore K. Rabb -- Thomas Fleming -- Tom Wicker -- Alistair Horne -- John Lukacs -- Robert L. O'Connell -- George Feifer -- Geoffrey C. Ward -- Williamson Murray -- Andrew Roberts -- James Bradley -- David Kahn -- Robert Katz -- Caleb Carr -- Roger Spiller -- Richard B. Frank -- James Chace -- Lance Morrow --
A second volume of historical speculation by experts in the field wonders what if Socrates had died on the battlefield at Delium or Eisenhower had finished off the Nazis in 1944, among other intriguing scenarios.
9780399147951
2001034919
Imaginary wars and battles.
Imaginary histories.
D25.C875.W438 2001
Sequel to: What if?
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 Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 The Chinese discovery of the New World, 15th century If Charles I had not left Whitehall, August 1641 Napoleon's invasion of North America If Lincoln had not freed the slaves France turns the other cheek, July 1870 The election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 The Great War torpedoed No Finland Station The luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt The War of 1938 Prime Minister Halifax : Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 The boys who saved Australia, 1942 Enigma uncracked Pius XII protests the Holocaust VE Day--November 11, 1944 The Fuhrer in the dock No bomb--no end : the Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 The presidency of Henry Wallace A tale of three congressmen, 1948 : America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy What if Pizarro had not found potatoes in Peru? / William H. McNeill. Carlos M.N. Eire -- Cecelia Holland -- Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- Martin Luther burns at the stake, 1521 Geoffrey Parker -- Theodore K. Rabb -- Thomas Fleming -- Tom Wicker -- Alistair Horne -- John Lukacs -- Robert L. O'Connell -- George Feifer -- Geoffrey C. Ward -- Williamson Murray -- Andrew Roberts -- James Bradley -- David Kahn -- Robert Katz -- Caleb Carr -- Roger Spiller -- Richard B. Frank -- James Chace -- Lance Morrow --
A second volume of historical speculation by experts in the field wonders what if Socrates had died on the battlefield at Delium or Eisenhower had finished off the Nazis in 1944, among other intriguing scenarios.
9780399147951
2001034919
Imaginary wars and battles.
Imaginary histories.
D25.C875.W438 2001