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What If?: the World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Crowley
Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 416280
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 395
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0399145761
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.48
EAN: 9780399145766
ASIN: 0399145761
Publication Date: December 31, 1999
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 A challenge for history thinkers January 19, 2001
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
In many decisive occasions of human history things could really turn out differently and we would live in a very, very different world now (Even, the world history itself; what if the meteor that finally killed all dinosours missed the earth). The book comprises many interesting cases from 700 BC up to present time. One starts to believe that everything was chance (or bad luck). Still, I feel the book could even be better. American originated cases (from Revolution to Midway) make up an unproportinally large part of the book. Instead there could be given more examples from others parts of the world, especially from Europe and Asia. There are lots of moments that should have taken place in this book, at least as an anecdote. Anyway, it is a brilliant work and I recommend it to all history thinkers.
 The title says it all. October 2, 1999
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I just love books like this - having tried to write alternate history stories myself, I know how difficult it is - miss one tiny detail and the whole premise can fall apart. So books like "What If..." written by people who know a little bit more about their chosen subjects than myself (ie: proper Historians) are indispensable for anyone who wants to consider how different the world would be if, for example, the US hadn't fluked a win at the Battle of Midway or even if the UK and US hadn't entered the First World War. Would it have even BEEN a "World" War? Probably not as it happens. Food for thought.I also recommend "The Hinge Factor" by Erik Durschmied and "The Hitler Options" and "Invasion" edited and written by Kenneth Macksey respectively, the latter being an in-depth look at the alternate history of the German Invasion of England in July 1940.
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