The collected What if?: eminent historians imagining what might have been : essays

Infectious alternatives : the plague that saved Jerusalem, 701B.C. / William H. McNeill

A good night's sleep can do wonders / Barbara N. Porter

No glory that was Greece : the Persians win at Salamis, 480 B.C. / Victor Davis Hanson

Conquest denied : the premature death of Alexander the Great / Josiah Ober

Furor Teutonicus : the Teutoburg forest, A.D. 9 / Lewis H. Lapham

The dark ages made lighter : the consequences of two defeats / Barry S. Strauss

The death that saved Europe : the Mongols turn back / Cecelia Holland

If only it had not been such a wet summer : the critical decade of the 1520s / Theodore K. Rabb

If the Holy League hadn't dithered / Peter Pierson

The immolation of Hérnan Cortés : Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 / Ross Hassig

The repulse of the English fireships : the Spanish Armada triumphs, August 8, 1588 / Geoffrey Parker

Unlikely victory : thirteen ways the Americans could have lost the Revolution / Thomas Fleming

George Washington's gamble / Ira D. Gruber

What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 / David McCullough

Ruler of the world : Napoleon's missed opportunities / Alistair Horne

Napoleon wins at Waterloo / Caleb Carr

If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the Union / James M. McPherson

A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios : how the Civil War might have turned out differently / Stephen W. Sears

Vietnam in America, 1865 / Tom Wicker

The what ifs of 1914 : the world war that should never have been / Robert Cowley

Bismarck's empire : stillborn / James Chace

Thanks, but no cigar / David Clay Large

The armistice of desperation / Dennis E. Showalter

How Hitler could have won the war : the drive for the Middle East, 1941 / John Keegan

What a taxi driver wrought / Williamson Murray

Triumph of the dictators / David Fromkin

Our midway disaster : Japan springs a trap, June 4, 1942 / Theodore F. Cook, Jr.

The case of the missing carriers / Elihu Rose

D Day fails : atomic alternatives in Europe / Stephen E. Ambrose

The Soviet invasion of Japan / Robert Cowley

Funeral in Berlin : the Cold War turns hot / David Clay Large

China without tears : if Chiang Kai-shek hadn't gambled in 1946 / Arthur Waldron

A quagmire avoided? / Ted Morgan

The end / Robert L. O'Connell

Socrates dies at Delium, 424 B.C. / Victor Davis Hanson

Not by a nose : the triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 B.C. / Josiah Ober

Pontius Pilate spares Jesus / Carlos M.N. Eire

Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 / Cecelia Holland

The Chinese discovery of the New World, 15th century / Theodore F. Cook, Jr.

Martin Luther burns at the stake, 1521 / Geoffrey Parker

If Charles I had not left Whitehall, August 1641 / Theodore K. Rabb

Napoleon's invasion of North America / Thomas Fleming

If Lincoln had not freed the slaves / Tom Wicker

France turns the other cheek, July 1870 / Alistair Horne

The election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 / John Lukacs

The Great War torpedoed / Robert L. O'Connell

No Finland Station / George Feifer

The luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Geoffrey C. Ward

The War of 1938 / Williamson Murray

Prime Minister Halifax : Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 / Andrew Roberts

The boys who saved Australia, 1942 / James Bradley

rEnigma uncracked / David Kahn

Pius XII protests the Holocaust / Robert Katz

VE Day

November 11, 1944 /

Caleb Carr

The Führer in the dock / Roger Spiller

No bomb

no end : the Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 /

Richard B. Frank

The presidency of Henry Wallace / James Chace

A tale of three congressmen, 1948 : America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy / Lance Morrow

What if Pizarro had not found potatoes in Peru? / William H. McNeill.