What if? 2 : eminent historians imagine what might have been : essays

443 Pages·2002·6.628 MB·English

by  James Bradley, Robert Cowley, et al

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WHAT IF?™ 2 6
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OTHER VOLUMES EDITED BY ROBERT COWLEY 7
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With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War
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No End Save Victory: Perspectives on WWII
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What If?™: The World’s Foremost Military Historians 12
Imagine What Might Have Been 13
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Experience of War
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The Reader’s Companion to Military History
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(with Geoffrey Parker)
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ESSAYS BY
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THOMAS FLEMING
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GEOFFREY C. WARD
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Edited by
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WHAT I F ?™ 2
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EMINENT HISTORIANS IMAGINE 9
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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are
used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is
entirely coincidental.
What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7
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I wish to express my special thanks to Byron Hollinshead and
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Sabine Russ at American Historical Publications, and to
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David Highfill at Putnam, for their assistance in all aspects of
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the development of this book.
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CONTENTS x 7
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List of Maps & Illustrations xiii
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Introduction by Robert Cowley xv
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Socrates Dies at Delium, 424 b.c. ✦ Victor Davis Hanson 1
The consequences of a single battle casualty 19
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Not by a Nose ✦ Josiah Ober 23 21
The triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 b.c.
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Pontius Pilate Spares Jesus ✦ Carlos M. N. Eire 48
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Christianity without the Crucifixion
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Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 ✦ Cecelia Holland 68 26
William does not conquer England 27
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The Chinese Discovery of the New World,
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15th Century ✦ Theodore F. Cook, Jr. 85
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What the expeditions of a eunuch admiral might have led to
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Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521 ✦ Geoffrey Parker 105 32
“O God, is Luther dead?” S 33
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1 If Charles I Had Not Left Whitehall,
2 August 1641 ✦ Theodore K. Rabb 120
As a starter, no English civil war
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Napoléon’s Invasion of North America ✦ Thomas Fleming 134
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Aedes aegyptitakes a holiday, 1802
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7 If Lincoln Had Not Freed the Slaves ✦ Tom Wicker 152
8 The inevitable results of no Emancipation Proclamation
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France Turns the Other Cheek, July 1870 ✦ Alistair Horne 165
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The needless war with Prussia
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The Election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 ✦ John Lukacs 181
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Brokering an earlier end to World War I
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15 The Great War Torpedoed ✦ Robert L. O’Connell 195
16 The weapon that could have won the war for Germany in 1915
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No Finland Station ✦ George Feifer 210
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A Russian Revolution without Lenin?
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20 The Luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ✦ Geoffrey C. Ward 236
21 Seven might-not-have-beens on the road to the presidency
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The War of 1938 ✦ Williamson Murray 255
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Chamberlain fails to sway Hitler at Munich
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Prime Minister Halifax ✦ Andrew Roberts 279
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Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940
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Enigma Uncracked ✦ David Kahn 305
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The Allies fail to break the German cipher machine
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Pius XII Protests the Holocaust ✦ Robert Katz 317
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VE Day—November 11, 1944 ✦ Caleb Carr 333 1
The unleashing of Patton and Montgomery 2
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The Führer in the Dock ✦ Roger Spiller 344
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A speculation on the banality of evil
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No Bomb: No End ✦ Richard B. Frank 366
The Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 7
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The Presidency of Henry Wallace ✦ James Chace 382 9
If FDR had not dumped his vice president in 1944
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A Tale of Three Congressmen, 1948 ✦ Lance Morrow 404
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America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy
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What If Pizarro Had Not Found 14
Potatoes in Peru? ✦ William H. McNeill 413 15
The humble roots of history 16
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