'Marvellously entertaining as well as thought-provoking - the finest intellectual parlour-game around.' - Noel Malcolm, "Sunday Telegraph". "More What If?", the sequel to the acclaimed "What If?" examines history's most fascinating what-might have-beens. More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, "What If? 2" is an entertaining and brilliantly ...
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'Marvellously entertaining as well as thought-provoking - the finest intellectual parlour-game around.' - Noel Malcolm, "Sunday Telegraph". "More What If?", the sequel to the acclaimed "What If?" examines history's most fascinating what-might have-beens. More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, "What If? 2" is an entertaining and brilliantly provocative look at the way our world could easily have been. What if William hadn't conquered? What if the enigma code remained uncracked? And would this even matter if Lord Halifax had become Prime Minister rather than Churchill? This selection of alternative history is both provocative and stimulating and gives us a valuable insight into the way things could so easily have been. Praise for the "What If?" series include: "Anyone interested in...History in general will find it fascinating to read" - "Spectator". "Pure, almost illicit pleasure" - Andrew Roberts, "Sunday Telegraph". "A top-class bed-side read" - "Financial Times".
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Add this copy of More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might to cart. $18.35, like new condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Macmillan.
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First UK Paperback edition-first printing
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Macmillan
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2002
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English
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Fine. Mint condition. Macmillan, 2002. First UK Paperback edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Paperback(small nick and crease on the edges of the cover) in mint condition. Illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, maps. The book is new with a small nick and crease on the edges of the pages.435pp including List of maps and illustrations.
Add this copy of More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might to cart. $23.63, like new condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Macmillan.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. Fine condition. Macmillan, 2002. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Purple hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the cover) in fine condition, with Dj(tear on the edge of the front Dj cover, small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover) in near fine condition. Illustrated with b/w drawings, maps. Nice and clean pages as new with two ink marks and small nick on the outer edges, two small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book except for the tear on the edge of the Dj cover.435pp including List of maps and illustrations. Price clipped. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: Like its predecessor (also edited by Cowley), this is an engrossing collection of essays on counterfactual history. Each contributor examines a pivotal event, then considers the ramifications had the event come out differently. In some cases the ramifications are so monumental that their effects are more obvious than intriguing. For example, if Socrates had died in battle during the Peloponnesian War, Victor Davis Hanson suggests, democracy, Christianity and Western thought as a whole would be radically different. Similarly, had Pontius Pilate pardoned Jesus the book's most fascinating premise Christianity would have developed in entirely new directions, according to Carlos M.N. Eire. Other essays depend, to diminished effect, on nonevents, such as Theodore F. Cook Jr. explaining what the incredible Chinese navy would have accomplished in the Atlantic and the New World had the Ming emperors not turned inwards. Most authors, however, have teased out some incredibly tiny detail in history and demonstrated how that one stitch holds the whole fabric together. Most notably, Robert L. O'Connell explains how one bureaucrat may have kept Germany from winning WWI by hindering a program of unrestricted submarine warfare. James Bradley writes about a ragtag group of Australian soldiers during WWII who held back thousands of well-trained Japanese forces on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea and by this Thermopylae-like action prevented the enemy from taking Port Moresby and, thus, Australia; had the defenders failed, the entire calculus of the Pacific War would have changed. And Robert Katz explores what would have happened had Pius XII protested the Holocaust, which he twice had a chance to do.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN: 9780333905104.
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