Synopses & Reviews
History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under different circumstances? Suppose General Douglas MacArthur had been captured before he could escape from Manila and became a prisoner of war? Suppose Joan of Arc had not been burned for heresy and had gone on to lead France to very different victories? Suppose Genghis Khan had been a convert to Judaism and his horde fought for a different cause than in our universe? Turtledove and his colleaguesEsther M. Friesner, Judith Tarr, Mike Resnick, Brad Linaweaver, Roland J. Green, and moreturn the past upside down and inside out, and the possibilities are endless. . . .
Synopsis
A new collection of alternate history stories speculates about how world history would have been changed if the great battles, from the battle for the Philippines during World War II to Joan of Arc's campaign to free France, had been fought under different circumstances, in works by Judith Tarr, Mike Resnick, Roland J. Green, Esther M. Friesner, and others. Reprint.
About the Author
Hugo-winner and historian
Harry Turtledove is equally renowned in science fiction for his rigorously thought-out alternate history novels and in fantasy for his tales of the supernatural placed in historically accurate settings. For Baen, he has written
The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, and the popular Gerin the Fox series,
Wisdom of the Fox and
Tale of the Fox. He has also authored the Ingram bestseller
Guns of the South and the genre bestsellers in the World War series for Del Rey.