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Informationen zum Autor Robert Cowley Klappentext What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing "what if..." scenarios by some of today's greatest historical minds-including James Bradley, Caleb Carr, James Chace, Theodore F. Cook, Jr., Carlos M.N. Eire, George Feifer, Thomas Fleming, Richard B. Frank, Victor Davis Hanson, Cecelia Holland, Alistair Horne, David Kahn, Robert Katz, John Lukacs, William H. McNeill, Lance Morrow, Williamson Murray, Josiah Ober, Robert L. O'Connell, Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K. Rabb, Andrew Roberts, Roger Spiller, Geoffrey C. Ward, and Tom Wicker. Zusammenfassung What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing "what if..." scenarios by some of today's greatest historical minds-including James Bradley! Caleb Carr! James Chace! Theodore F. Cook! Jr.! Carlos M.N. Eire! George Feifer! Thomas Fleming! Richard B. Frank! Victor Davis Hanson! Cecelia Holland! Alistair Horne! David Kahn! Robert Katz! John Lukacs! William H. McNeill! Lance Morrow! Williamson Murray! Josiah Ober! Robert L. O'Connell! Geoffrey Parker! Theodore K. Rabb! Andrew Roberts! Roger Spiller! Geoffrey C. Ward! and Tom Wicker. Inhaltsverzeichnis What If? 2 - Edited by Robert Cowley List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction by Robert Cowley Socrates Dies at Delium, 424 B.C. - Victor Davis Hanson The consequences of a single battle casualty Not by a Nose - Josiah Ober The triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 B.C. Pontius Pilate Spares Jesus - Carlos M. N. Eire Christianity without the Crucifixion Repulse at Hastings, October 14, 1066 - Cecelia Holland William does not conquer England The Chinese Discovery of the New World, 15th Century - Theodore F. Cook, Jr. What the expeditions of a eunuch admiral might have led to Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521 - Geoffrey Parker "O God, is Luther dead?" If Charles I Had Not Left Whitehall, August 1641 - Theodore K. Rabb As a starter, no English civil war Napoleon's Invasion of North America - Thomas Fleming Aedes aegypti takes a holiday, 1802 If Lincoln Had Not Freed the Slaves - Tom Wicker The inevitable results of no Emancipation Proclamation France Turns the Other Cheek, July 1870 - Alistair Horne The needless war with Prussia The Election of Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 - John Lukacs Brokering an earlier end to World War I The Great War Torpedoed - Robert L. O'Connell The weapon that could have won the war for Germany in 1915 No Finland Station - George Feifer A Russian Revolution without Lenin? The Luck of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Geoffrey C. Ward Seven might-not-have-beens on the road to the presidency The War of 1938 - Williamson Murray Chamberlain fails to sway Hitler at Munich Prime Minister Halifax - Andrew Roberts Great Britain makes peace with Germany, 1940 The Boys Who Saved Australia, 1942 - James Bradley Small events can have large results Enigma Uncracked - David Kahn The Allies fail to break the German cipher machine Pius XII Protests the Holocaust - Robert Katz VE Day - November 11, 1944 - Caleb Carr The unleashing of Patton and Montgomery The Führer in the Dock - Roger Spiller A speculation on the banality of evil No Bomb: No End - Richard B. Frank The Operation Olympic disaster, Japan 1945 The Presidency of Henry Wallace - James Chace If FDR had not dumped his vice president in 1944 A Tale of Three Congressmen, 1948 - Lance Morrow America without Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy What If Pizarro Had Not Found Potatoes in Peru? - William H. McNeil ...
