What if? : the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been : essays
Infectious alternatives : the plague that saved Jerusalem, 701B.C. / A good night's sleep can do wonders / No glory that was Greece : the Persians win at Salamis, 480 B.C. / Conquest denied : the premature death of Alexander the Great / Furor Teutonicus : the Teutoburg forest, A.D. 9 / The dark ages made lighter : the consequences of two defeats / The death that saved Europe : the Mongols turn back / If only it had not been such a wet summer : the critical decade of the 1520s / If the Holy League hadn't dithered / The immolation of Hérnan Cortés : Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 / The repulse of the English fireships : the Spanish Armada triumphs, August 8, 1588 / Unlikely victory : thirteen ways the Americans could have lost the Revolution / George Washington's gamble / What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 / Ruler of the world : Napoleon's missed opportunities / Napoleon wins at Waterloo / If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the Union / A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios : how the Civil War might have turned out differently / Vietnam in America, 1865 / The what ifs of 1914 : the world war that should never have been / Bismarck's empire : stillborn / Thanks, but no cigar / The armistice of desperation / How Hitler could have won the war : the drive for the Middle East, 1941 / What a taxi driver wrought / Triumph of the dictators / Our midway disaster : Japan springs a trap, June 4, 1942 / The case of the missing carriers / D Day fails : atomic alternatives in Europe / The Soviet invasion of Japan / Funeral in Berlin : the Cold War turns hot / China without tears : if Chiang Kai-shek hadn't gambled in 1946 / A quagmire avoided? / The end
Cowley, Robert.
Ambrose, Stephen E.
William H. McNeill -- Barbara N. Porter -- Victor Davis Hanson -- Josiah Ober -- Lewis H. Lapham -- Barry S. Strauss -- Cecelia Holland -- Theodore K. Rabb -- Peter Pierson -- Ross Hassig -- Geoffrey Parker -- Thomas Fleming -- Ira D. Gruber -- David McCullough -- Alistair Horne -- Caleb Carr -- James M. McPherson -- Stephen W. Sears -- Tom Wicker -- Robert Cowley -- James Chace -- David Clay Large -- Dennis E. Showalter -- John Keegan -- Williamson Murray -- David Fromkin -- Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- Elihu Rose -- Stephen E. Ambrose -- Robert Cowley -- David Clay Large -- Arthur Waldron -- Ted Morgan -- Robert L. O'Connell.
by Stephen E. Ambrose [and others] ; edited by Robert Cowley.
