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.
The 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. 100,000 first printing.
List of Maps & Illustrations xiii Introduction xv Robert Cowley Socrates Dies at Delium, 424 B.C. 1(22) Victor Davis Hanson The consequences of a single battle casualty Not by a Nose 23(25) Josiah Ober The triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 B.C. Pontius Pilate Spares Jesus 48(20) Carlos M. N. Eire Christianity without the Crucifixion Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 68(17) Cecelia Holland William does not conquer England The Chinese Discovery of the New World, 15th Century 85(20) Theodore F. Cook What the expeditions of a eunuch admiral might have led to Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521 105(15) Geoffrey Parker ``O God, is Luther dead? If Charles I Had Not Left Whitehall, August 1641 120(14) Theodore K. Rabb As a starter, no English civil war Napoleons Invasion of North America 134(18) Thomas Fleming Aedes aegypti takes a holiday, 1802 If Lincoln Had Not Freed the Slaves 152(13) Tom Wicker The inevitable results of on Emancipation Proclamation France Turns the Other Cheek, July 1870 165(16) Alstair Horne The needless war with Prussia The Election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 181(14) John Lukacs Brokering an earlier end to World War I The Great War Torpedoed 195(15) Robert L. OConnell The weapon that could have won the war for Germany in 1915 No Finland Station 210(26) George Feifer A Russian Revolution without Lenin? The Luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 236(19) Geoffrey C. Ward Seven might-not-have-beens on the road to the presidency The War of 1938 255(24) Williamson Murray Chamberlain fails to sway Hitler at Munich Prime Minister Halifax 279(12) Andrew Roberts Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 The Boys Who Saved Australia, 1942 291(14) James Bradley Small events can have large results Enigma Uncracked 305(12) David Kahn The Allies fail to break the German cipher machine Pius XII Protests the Holocaust 317(16) Robert Katz Could the wartime pope have prevented the Final Solution? VE Day--November 11, 1944 333(11) Caled Carr The unleashing of Patton and Montgomery The Further in the Dock 344(22) Roger Spiller A speculation on the banality of evil No Bomb: No End 366(16) Richard B. Frank The Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 The Presidency of Henry Wallance 382(22) James Chace If FDR had not dumped his vice president in 1944 A Tale of Three Congressmen, 1948 404(9) Lance Morrow America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy What If Pizarro Had Not Found Potatoes in Peru? 413 William H. McNeill The humble roots of history
