Synopses & Reviews
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 perspective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include:
x Infectious Alternatives: The Plague that Saved Jerusalem
by William H. McNeil
x No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis
by Victor Davis Hanson
x Conquest Denied: Alexander the Great's Premature Death
by Josiah Ober
x Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg
by Lewis Lapham
x The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats
by Barry S. Strauss
x The Death that Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back
by Cecilia Holland
x If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer
by Theodore K. Rabb
x The Immolation of Hernán Cortés
by Ross Hassig
Synopsis
This fascinating collection of essays explores the great turning points in world history and what would have happened if they had turned out differently. Offering a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal points, these essays have been written by the foremost historians at work today.
Synopsis
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 perspective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include:
* Infectious Alternatives: The Plague that Saved Jerusalem
by William H. McNeil
* No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis
by Victor Davis Hanson
* Conquest Denied: Alexander the Great's Premature Death
by Josiah Ober
* Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg
by Lewis Lapham
* The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats
by Barry S. Strauss
* The Death that Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back
by Cecilia Holland
* If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer
by Theodore K. Rabb
* The Immolation of Hernán Cortés
by Ross Hassig
About the Author
Robert Cowley is the founding editor of the award-winning
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, whose tenth-anniversary issue inspired this audiobook. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing, and lives in New York City and Connecticut.