What if 2 eminent historians imagine what might have been essays 1st Edition by Robert Cowley ISBN 042518613X 978-0425186138

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ISBN 10:  042518613X 

ISBN 13:  978-0425186138

Author:  Robert Cowley 

What if Lincoln didn’t abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing “what if…” scenarios by some of today’s greatest historical minds-including James Bradley, Caleb Carr, James Chace, Theodore F. Cook, Jr., Carlos M.N. Eire, George Feifer, Thomas Fleming, Richard B. Frank, Victor Davis Hanson, Cecelia Holland, Alistair Horne, David Kahn, Robert Katz, John Lukacs, William H. McNeill, Lance Morrow, Williamson Murray, Josiah Ober, Robert L. O’Connell, Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K. Rabb, Andrew Roberts, Roger Spiller, Geoffrey C. Ward, and Tom Wicker.

Table of contents: 

1 Socrates Dies at Delium, 424 B.C. + Victor Davis Hanson
The consequences of a single battle casualty

2 Not by a Nose + Josiah Ober
The triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 B.C.

3 Pontius Pilate Spares Jesus + Carlos M. N. Eire
Christianity without the Crucifixion

4 Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 + Cecelia Holland
William does not conquer England

5 The Chinese Discovery of the New World, 15th Century + Theodore F. Cook, Jr.
What the expeditions of a eunuch admiral might have led to

6 Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521 + Geoffrey Parker
“O God, is Luther dead?”

7 If Charles I Had Not Left Whitehall, August 1641 + Theodore K. Rabb
As a starter, no English civil war

8 Napoléon’s Invasion of North America + Thomas Fleming
Aedes aegypti takes a holiday, 1802

9 If Lincoln Had Not Freed the Slaves + Tom Wicker
The inevitable results of no Emancipation Proclamation

10 France Turns the Other Cheek, July 1870 + Alistair Horne
The needless war with Prussia

11 The Election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 + John Lukacs
Brokering an earlier end to World War I

12 The Great War Torpedoed + Robert L. O’Connell
The weapon that could have won the war for Germany in 1915

13 No Finland Station + George Feifer
A Russian Revolution without Lenin?

14 The Luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt + Geoffrey C. Ward
Seven might-not-have-beens on the road to the presidency

15 The War of 1938 + Williamson Murray
Chamberlain fails to sway Hitler at Munich

16 Prime Minister Halifax + Andrew Roberts
Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940

17 The Boys Who Saved Australia, 1942 + James Bradley
Small events can have large results

18 Enigma Uncracked + David Kahn
The Allies fail to break the German cipher machine

19 Pius XII Protests the Holocaust + Robert Katz
Could the wartime pope have prevented the Final Solution?

20 VE Day—November 11, 1944 + Caleb Carr
The unleashing of Patton and Montgomery

21 The Führer in the Dock + Roger Spiller
A speculation on the banality of evil

22 No Bomb: No End + Richard B. Frank
The Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945

23 The Presidency of Henry Wallace + James Chace
If FDR had not dumped his vice president in 1944

24 A Tale of Three Congressmen, 1948 + Lance Morrow
America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy

25 What If Pizarro Had Not Found Potatoes in Peru? + William H. McNeill
The humble roots of history

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