What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
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American editor Robert Cowley has brought together those whom his meaty book dubs "the world's foremost military historians" to describe details of significant human conflicts and to construct plausible "counterfactual" events. The balance between the actual and the speculative varies between essays but the counterfactual is always used as "a tool to enhance the understanding of history".Beginning with the siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC and ending with the Cold War, the contributors posit some amazing historical alternatives. Christianity and Islam, for example, may never have existed an
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Manufacturer: Pan
Release date: 6 April 2001
ISBN-10 : 0330487248 | ISBN-13: 9780330487245
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Release date: 6 April 2001
ISBN-10 : 0330487248 | ISBN-13: 9780330487245