TY - BOOK AU - Cowley,Robert AU - Ambrose,Stephen E. TI - What if?: the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been : essays SN - 0425176428 (pbk.) : AV - D 25.5 .W44 2000 PY - 2000///, c1952 CY - New York PB - Berkley Books KW - Imaginary wars and battles KW - Imaginary histories N1 - Originally published: New York : Putnam, c1952; Infectious alternatives / William H. McNeill -- A good night's sleep can do wonders / Barbara N. Porter -- No glory that was Greece / Victor Davis Hanson -- Conquest denied / Josiah Ober -- Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 / Lewis H. Lapham -- The Dark Ages made lighter / Barry S. Strauss -- The death that saved Europe / Cecelia Holland -- If only it had not been such a wet summer / Theodore K. Rabb -- The immolation of Hernan Cortes / Ross Hassig -- The repulse of the English fireships / Geoffrey Parker -- Unlikely victory / Thomas Fleming -- George Washington's gamble / Ira D. Gruber -- What the fog wrought / David McCullough -- Ruler of the world / Alistair Horne -- Napoleon wins at Waterloo / Caleb Carr -- If the lost order hadn't been lost / James M. McPherson -- A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios / Stephen W. Sears -- Vietnam in America, 1865 / Tom WIcker -- The what ifs of 1914 / Robert Cowley -- Bismarck's empire: Stillborn / James Chace -- Thanks, but no cigar / David Clay Large -- The armistice of desperation / Dennis E. Showalter -- How Hitler could have won the war ? John Keegan -- What a taxi driver wrought / WilliamsonMurray -- Triumph of the dictators / David Fromkin -- Our Midway disaster / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- The case of the missing carriers / Elihu Rose -- D Day fails / Stephen E. Ambrose -- The Soviet invasion of Japan / Robert Cowley -- Funeral in Berlin / David Clay Large -- China without tears / Arthur Waldron --A quagmire avoided? /Ted Morgan -- The end / Robert O'Connell ER -