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What If...? Vol 1 (Abridged): The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been Audiobook
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Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining.
This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost historians speculating on these "what ifs", providing a fascinating new prospective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include:
The Peace of 1914: The World War that Wasn't by Robert Cowley
How Hitler Could Have Won the War: The Drive for the Middle East by John Keegan
Our Midway Disaster: Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 by Theodore F. Cook
D-Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe by Stephen E. Ambrose
Funeral in Berlin: The Cold War Turns Hot by David Clay Large
China Without Tears: If Chiang Hadn't Gambled in 1946 by Arthur Waldron
In addition to the essays are fascinating "sidebars" provided by such authors as James Chace, Ted Morgan, and others that illuminate in brief other world-changing episodes.
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About Robert Cowley
Robert Cowley is the founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. As an American military historian, he has written on periods from the Civil War through World War II and has travelled the entire length of the Western Front—from the North Sea to the Swiss border. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing and has edited several collections of essays. He lives in New York and Connecticut.
About John Cunningham
John Cunningham is an actor, known for Another World, The Jackal, and Dead Poets Society. He is married to Carolyn Duke Cotton and they have three children.