What If?

'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read' - "Spectator". "What If?" is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing military history turning points of the last 3,000 years, twenty celebrated historians, including Alistair Horne and John Keegan, have co...

(展开全部)

'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read' - "Spectator". "What If?" is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing military history turning points of the last 3,000 years, twenty celebrated historians, including Alistair Horne and John Keegan, have come together to produce a group of essays that enhance our current understanding of decisive events. 'Pure, almost illicit pleasure. What makes these essays tremendously diverting is how little they strain one's sense of credibility' - Andrew Roberts, "Sunday Telegraph". 'These informed, elegant essays authoritively analyse incidents over the past 3,000 years' - "The Times". 'One of the delights of the book is that broad speculative analysis is built from a mass of exciting detail. This make for a top-class bed-side read' - "Financial Times".

List of Illustrations
Introduction by Robert Cowley
Infectious Alternatives - William H McNeill
The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 701 BC
A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders - Barbara N Porter
No Glory That Was Greece - Victor Davis Hanson
· · · · · · (更多)

List of Illustrations
Introduction by Robert Cowley
Infectious Alternatives - William H McNeill
The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 701 BC
A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders - Barbara N Porter
No Glory That Was Greece - Victor Davis Hanson
The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 BC
Conquest Denied - Josiah Ober
The Premature Death of Alexander the Great
Furor Teutonicus The Teutoburg Forest, AD 9 - Lewis H Lapham
The Dark Ages Made Lighter - Barry S Strauss
The Consequences of Two Defeats
The Death That Saved Europe - Cecelia Holland
The Mongols Turn Back 1242
If Only It Had Not Been Such A Wet Summer - Theodore K Rabb
The Critical Decade of the 1520s
If The Holy League Hadn't Dithered - Peter Pierson
The Immolation of Hernan Cortes - Ross Hassig
Tenochtitlan June 30, 1521
The Repulse of the English Fireships - Geoffrey Parker
The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588
Unlikely Victory - Thomas Fleming
Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution
George Washington's Gamble - Ira D Gruber
What the Fog Wrought - David McCullough
The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776
Ruler of the World - Alistair Horne
Napolean's Missed Opportunities
Napoleon Wins At Waterloo - Caleb Carr
If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost - James M McPherson
Robert E Lee Humbles the Union, 1862
A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios - Stephen W Sears
How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently
Vietnam in America, 1865 - Tom Wicker
The Waht Ifs of 1914 - Robert Cowley
The World War That Should Never Have Been
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 - John Keegan
The Drive for the Middle East, 1941
What A Taxi Driver Wrought - Williamson Murray
Triumph of the Dictators - David Fromkin
Our Miday Disaster - Theodore F Cook Jr
Japan Springs A Trap, June 4 1942
The Cazse of the Missing Carriers - Elihu Rose
D Day Fails - Stephen E Ambrose
Atomic Alternatives in Europe
The Soviet Invasion of Japan - Robert Cowley
Funeral in Berlin - David Clay Large
The Cold War Turns Hot
China Without Tears - Arthur Waldron
If Chiang Kai-Shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946
A Quagmire Avoided? - Ted Morgan
The End - Robert L O'Connell
· · · · · · (收起)