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What If # 2 - Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been - James Bradley and Others

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Audio Books : History : Other quality : English

 


Title: What If # 2 - Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Author: James Bradley, Caleb
Carr, Alistair Horne, Thomas Fleming and many others
Published: 2002


This volume presents 25
intriguing "what if..." scenarios 


Editorial Reviews:

Publishers Weekly:

Like its predecessor (also edited by Cowley), this is an engrossing collection of essays on counterfactual
history. Each contributor examines a pivotal event, then considers the ramifications had the event come out differently.
In some cases the ramifications are so monumental that their effects are more obvious than intriguing. For example, if
Socrates had died in battle during the Peloponnesian War, Victor Davis Hanson suggests, democracy, Christianity and
Western thought as a whole would be radically different. Similarly, had Pontius Pilate pardoned Jesus the book's most
fascinating premise Christianity would have developed in entirely new directions, according to Carlos M.N. Eire. Other
essays depend, to diminished effect, on nonevents, such as Theodore F. Cook Jr. explaining what the incredible Chinese
navy would have accomplished in the Atlantic and the New World had the Ming emperors not turned inwards. Most authors,
however, have teased out some incredibly tiny detail in history and demonstrated how that one stitch holds the whole
fabric together. Most notably, Robert L. O'Connell explains how one bureaucrat may have kept Germany from winning WWI by
hindering a program of unrestricted submarine warfare. James Bradley writes about a ragtag group of Australian soldiers
during WWII who