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Informationen zum Autor 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. Cowley has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing. Klappentext Did Eisenhower avoid a showdown with Stalin by not taking Berlin before the Soviets? What might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated? This new volume in the widely praised series presents fascinating "what if..." scenarios by such prominent historians as: Robert Dallek, Caleb Carr, Antony Beevor, John Lukacs, Jay Winick, Thomas Fleming, Tom Wicker, Theodore Rabb, Victor David Hansen, Cecelia Holland, Andrew Roberts, Ted Morgan, George Feifer, Robert L. O'Connell, Lawrence Malkin, and John F. Stacks. Included are two essential bonus essays reprinted from the original New York Times bestseller What If? -David McCullough imagines Washington's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Long Island, and James McPherson envisions Lee's successful invasion of the North in 1862. Zusammenfassung Did Eisenhower avoid a showdown with Stalin by not taking Berlin before the Soviets? What might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated? This new volume in the widely praised series presents fascinating "what if..." scenarios by such prominent historians as: Robert Dallek! Caleb Carr! Antony Beevor! John Lukacs! Jay Winick! Thomas Fleming! Tom Wicker! Theodore Rabb! Victor David Hansen! Cecelia Holland! Andrew Roberts! Ted Morgan! George Feifer! Robert L. O'Connell! Lawrence Malkin! and John F. Stacks. Included are two essential bonus essays reprinted from the original New York Times bestseller What If? -David McCullough imagines Washington's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Long Island! and James McPherson envisions Lee's successful invasion of the North in 1862. Inhaltsverzeichnis What Ifs?™ of American HistoryList of Maps and Illustrations Introduction by RObert Cowley Theodore K. Rabb Might the Mayflower Not Have Sailed? Caleb Carr William Pitt the Elder and the Avoidance of the American Revolution David McCullough What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 Tom Wicker His Accidency, John Tyler Victor Davis Hanson Lew Wallace and the Ghosts of the Shunpike James M. McPherson If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 Thomas Fleming The Northwest Conspiracy Jay Winick Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth Cecelia Holland The Revolution 1877 Andrew Roberts The Whale Against the Wolf: THe Anglo-American War of 1896 John Lukacs No Pearl Harbor?: FDR Delays the War Antony Beevor If Eisenhower Had Gone to Berlin Ted Morgan Joe McCarthy's Secret Life George Feifer If the U-2 Hadn't Flown Robert L. O'Connell The Cuban Missle Crisis: Second Holocaust Robert Dallek JFK Lives Lawrence Malkin and John F. Stacks What It Watergate Were Still Just and Upscale Address? ...
