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

Robert Cowley

First published 1999
Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiv+395
ISBN 0965445720

Book Design: Carla Bolte
Maps: Jeffrey L. Ward
Title and Chapter Opener Art: Foto Marburg
This is probably a book club edition published for the Quality Paperback Book Club.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Infectious Alternatives: The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 01 B.C. William H. McNeill Essay
13 A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders Barbara N. Porter Essay
15 No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B.C. Victor Davis Hanson Essay
37 Conquest Denied: The Premature Death of Alexander the Great Josiah Ober Essay
57 Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 Lewis Lapham Essay
71 The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats Barry S. Strauss Essay
93 The Death That Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back, 1242 Cecelia Holland Essay
107 If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s Theodore K. Rabb Essay
119 If the Holy League Hadn't Dithered Peter Pierson Essay
121 The Immolation of Hernán Cortes: Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 Ross Hassig Essay
139 The Repulse of the English Fireships: The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588 Geoffrey Parker Essay
155 Unlikely Victory: Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution Thomas Fleming Essay
187 George Washington's Gamble Ira D. Gruber Essay
189 What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 David McCullough Essay
201 Ruler of the World: Napoleon's Missed Opportunities Alistair Horne Essay
220 Napoleon Wins at Waterloo Caleb Carr Essay
223 If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 James M. McPherson Essay
239 A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios: How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently Stephen W. Sears Essay
259 Vietnam in America, 1865 Tom Wicker Essay
261 The What Ifs of 1914: The World War That Should Never Have Been Robert Cowley Essay
288 Bismarck's Empire: Stillborn James Chace Essay
290 Thanks, But No Cigar David Clay Large Essay
292 The Armistice of Desperation Dennis E. Showalter Essay
295 How Hitler Could Have Won the War: The Drive for the Middle East, 1941 John Keegan (historian) Essay
306 What a Taxi Driver Wrought Williamson Murray Short Fiction
308 Triumph of the Dictators David Fromkin Essay
311 Our Midway Disaster: Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 Theodore F. Cook, Jr. Essay
340 The Case of the Missing Carriers Elihu Rose Essay
341 D Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe Stephen E. Ambrose Essay
349 The Soviet Invasion of Japan Robert Cowley Essay
351 Funeral in Berlin: The Cold War Turns Hot David Clay Large Essay
377 China Without Tears: If Chiang Kai-shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946 Arthur Waldron Essay
393 A Quagmire Avoided? Ted Morgan Essay
394 The End Robert L. O'Connell Essay
xi Introduction (What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been) Robert Cowley Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 1999 G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover Nonfiction xiv+395
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been Cover 2000 Berkley Books Trade Paperback Nonfiction xiv+395