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The collected What if? : em...
Historians and philosophers alike have pondered the crucial turning points of history--the events that forever altered the course of civilization and set the stage for the world in which we live today. In these essays, some of the most respected minds of our time as the question "What if ... ": Pontius Pilate hadn't ordered Jesus Christ's crucifixion? Abraham Lincoln hadn't abolished slavery? A Confederate aide hadn't accidentally lost General Robert E. Lee's plans for invading the North? The Allied invasion of D Day had failed? Pope Pius XII had spoken out against the Holocaust? The Mongols had succeeded in conquering Europe? --From publisher's description
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monografia Rebiun37946168 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37946168 m o d cr bn||||||abp cr bn||||||ada 100416s2005 nyuab o 000 0 eng d 1029287326 1301786285 1418843302 0399152385 9780399152382 9781435118256 1435118251 070918152382 OCLCE eng pn OCLCE OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ INARC OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCO OCLCA dlr 909 22 The collected What if? eminent historians imagining what might have been : essays by Caleb Carr [and others] ; edited by Robert Cowley New York Putnam [2005?] New York New York Putnam 1 online resource (827 pages) illustrations, maps 1 online resource (827 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Infectious alternatives : the plague that saved Jerusalem, 701B.C. William H. McNeill. -- A good night's sleep can do wonders Barbara N. Porter. -- No glory that was Greece : the Persians win at Salamis, 480 B.C. Victor Davis Hanson. -- Conquest denied : the premature death of Alexander the Great Josiah Ober. -- Furor Teutonicus : the Teutoburg forest, A.D. 9 Lewis H. Lapham. -- The dark ages made lighter : the consequences of two defeats Barry S. Strauss. -- The death that saved Europe : the Mongols turn back Cecelia Holland. -- If only it had not been such a wet summer : the critical decade of the 1520s Theodore K. Rabb. -- If the Holy League hadn't dithered Peter Pierson. -- The immolation of Hérnan Cortés : Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 Ross Hassig. -- The repulse of the English fireships : the Spanish Armada triumphs, August 8, 1588 Geoffrey Parker. -- Unlikely victory : thirteen ways the Americans could have lost the Revolution Thomas Fleming. -- George Washington's gamble Ira D. Gruber. -- What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 David McCullough. -- Ruler of the world : Napoleon's missed opportunities Alistair Horne. -- Napoleon wins at Waterloo Caleb Carr. -- If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the Union James M. McPherson. -- A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios : how the Civil War might have turned out differently Stephen W. Sears. -- Vietnam in America, 1865 Tom Wicker. -- The what ifs of 1914 : the world war that should never have been Robert Cowley. -- Bismarck's empire : stillborn James Chace. -- Thanks, but no cigar David Clay Large. -- The armistice of desperation Dennis E. Showalter. -- How Hitler could have won the war : the drive for the Middle East, 1941 John Keegan. -- What a taxi driver wrought Williamson Murray. -- Triumph of the dictators David Fromkin. -- Our midway disaster : Japan springs a trap, June 4, 1942 Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- The case of the missing carriers Elihu Rose. -- D Day fails : atomic alternatives in Europe Stephen E. Ambrose. -- The Soviet invasion of Japan Robert Cowley. -- Funeral in Berlin : the Cold War turns hot David Clay Large. -- China without tears : if Chiang Kai-shek hadn't gambled in 1946 Arthur Waldron. -- A quagmire avoided? Ted Morgan. -- The end Robert L. O'Connell. -- 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. -- Napoleon'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 : Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 Andrew Roberts. -- The boys who saved Australia, 1942 James Bradley. -- rEnigma 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 : the Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 Richard B. Frank. -- The presidency of Henry Wallace 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? William H. McNeill Use copy. Restrictions unspecified star. MiAaHDL Historians and philosophers alike have pondered the crucial turning points of history--the events that forever altered the course of civilization and set the stage for the world in which we live today. In these essays, some of the most respected minds of our time as the question "What if ... ": Pontius Pilate hadn't ordered Jesus Christ's crucifixion? Abraham Lincoln hadn't abolished slavery? A Confederate aide hadn't accidentally lost General Robert E. Lee's plans for invading the North? The Allied invasion of D Day had failed? Pope Pius XII had spoken out against the Holocaust? The Mongols had succeeded in conquering Europe? --From publisher's description Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Imaginary wars and battles Imaginary histories Guerres et batailles imaginaires Histoire-fiction Imaginary histories. Imaginary wars and battles. Alternative histories (Fiction) Alternative histories (Fiction) Alternative histories (Fiction) Cowley, Robert Carr, Caleb 1955-2024.) What if? What if? 2 Print version Collected What if?. New York : Putnam, [2005?] (OCoLC)58918785