Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, historians offer an alternative history and take a provocative look at the way our world could easily have been. For example, what if William hadn't conquered?
The world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been. It has been said that "what if?" (or the counterfactual, to use the vogue word in academic circles) is the historian's favorite secret question. What ifs have a genuine value that goes beyond the "idle parlor…
Essays by respected military historians, including Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, and John Keegan, consider the consequences if history had turned out differently.
What if George Washington had never made his miraculous escape, General Robert E. Lee lost his invading plans, Alexander the Great had been slain in battle, the Allied invasion on D Day had failed, and Mongols had succeeded in conquering Europe?
Essays by respected military historians, including Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, and John Keegan, consider the consequences if history had turned out differently.
