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"The book of the year for just about any history lover." (Kirkus Reviews on What If?)
There is no surer way to make history come alive than to contemplate those moments when the world's future-the government and wealth of nations, the faith and culture of generations-hung in the total amount. Within this volume, many of our brightest historians speculate about some of history's intriguing crossroads and the ways in which our lives may have been changed for the better-or the worse. The twenty-seven original essays range across the full span of history. Victor Davis Hanson imagines a drastically altered development of Western philosophy if Socrates had died on the battlefield at Delium. Authoring the Reformation and an early on death of Martin Luther, Geoffrey Parker describes a global without the Protestant Church. John Lukacs proposes that Theodore Roosevelt may have ended the First World War-if he previously been renominated for president in 1912. Geoffrey Ward reminds us of Franklin D. Roosevelt's fortune in both his choice of a wife and in his narrow escape from an assassin's bullet in 1933. James Bradley describes the defense with a band of soldiers which could have saved Australia in 1942 and had a dramatic effect on the eventual Japanese defeat in the Pacific. And Caleb Carr argues that we could have been spared the horrific last half a year of World War II had Eisenhower seized his chance to destroy the Nazis in the fall of 1944.
The list of illustrious contributors includes Lance Morrow, Theodore K. Rabb, Alistair Horne, James Chace, Tom Wicker, Andrew Roberts, Josiah Ober, and more.
Edited by Robert Cowley.
