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What If Essays: Book 1

What If? (1999) (edit title/settings)

The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

by Stephen E. Ambrose (Author), Robert Cowley (edit contributors)

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Historians and philosophers alike have pondered the crucial turning points of history-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 ask the question "What If..." ... read more

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What if Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had conquered Jerusalem in 701 B.C. when he led his imperial army against a coalition of Egvptian, Phoenician, Philistine, and Jewish enemies and handily defeated them all?

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1. Infectious Alternatives - The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 701 B.C. (William H. McNeill)
2. No Glory That Was Greece - The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B.C. (Victor Davis Hanson)
3. Conquest Denied - The Premature Death of Alexander the Great (Josiah Ober)
4. Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 (Lewis H. Lapham)
5. The Dark Ages Made Lighter - The Consequences of Two Defeats (Barry S. Strauss)
6. The Death That Saved Europe - The Mongols Turn Back, 1242 (Cecelia Holland)
7. If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer - The Critical Decade of the 1520s (Theodore K. Rabb)
8. The Immolation of Hernan Cortes - Tenochtitlan, June 30, 1521 (Ross Hassig)
9. The Repulse of the English Fireships - The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588 (Geoffrey Parker)
10. Unlikely Victory - Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution (Thomas Fleming)
11. What the Fog Wrought - The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 (David McCullough)
12. Ruler of the World - Napoleon's Missed Opportunities (Alistair Horne)
13. If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost - Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 (James M. McPherson)
14. A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios - How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently (Stephen W. Sears)
15. The What Ifs of 1914 - The World War That Should Never Have Been (Robert Cowley)
16. How Hitler Could Have Won the War - The Drive for the Middle East, 1941 (John Keegan)
17. Our Midway Disaster - Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 (Theodore F. Cook, Jr.)
18. D-Day Fails - Atomic Alternatives in Europe (Stephen E. Ambrose)
19. Funeral in Berlin - The Cold War Turns Hot (David Clay Large)
20. China Without Tears - If Chiang Kai-Shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946 (Arthur Waldron)

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This is book 1 of 4 in What If Essays. (standard series)

Followed by What If? 2.

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  1. Stephen E. Ambrose (Author)
  2. Robert Cowley

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0399145761
Page Count: 395

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