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What if? 2 : eminent historians imagine what might have been : essays / by James Bradley [and others] ; edited by Robert Cowley.
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English
Published/Created
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, ©2001.
Description
xvii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
D25.5 .W44 2001
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Imaginary wars and battles
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Imaginary histories
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Cowley, Robert
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Bradley, James, 1954-
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Counterfactual histories
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Summary note
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.
Notes
Sequel to: What if?
Contents
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
Enigma 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.
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What if? two
What if? II
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ISBN
0399147950
9780399147951
9780425186138
042518613X
LCCN
2001034919
OCLC
47050061
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