What If?

Infectious Alternatives - William H. McNeil The Plague that Saved Jerusalem, 701 B.C. A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders - Barbara N. Porter

No Glory That Was Greece - Victor Davis Hanson The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B.C.

Conquest Denied - Josiah Ober The Premature Death of Alexander the Great

Furor Teutonicus - The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 - Lewis H. Lapham

The Dark Ages Made Lighter - Barry S. Strauss The Consequences of Two Defeats

The Death That Saved Europe - Cecelia Holland The Mongols Turn Back, 1242

If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer - Theodore K. Rabb The Critical Decade of the 1520s If the Holy League Hadn't Dithered - Peter Pierson

The Immolation of Hernán Cortés - Ross Hassig Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521

The Repulse of the English Fireships - Geoffrey Parker The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588

Unlikely Victory - Thomas Fleming Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution George Washington's Gamble - Ira D. Gruber

What the Fog Wrought - David McCullough The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776

Ruler of the World - Alistair Horne Napoleon's Missed Opportunities Napoleon Wins at Waterloo - Caleb Carr

If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost - James M. McPherson Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862

A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios - Stephen W. Sears How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently Vietnam in America, 1865 - Tom Wicker

The What Ifs of 1914 - Robert Cowley The World War That Should Have Never Been 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 The Drive for the Middle East, 1941 What a Taxi Driver Wrought - Williamson Murray Triumph of the Dictators - David Fromkin

Our Midway Disaster - Theodore F. Cook, Jr. Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 The Case of the Missing Carriers - Elihu Rose

D Day Fails - Stephen A. Ambrose Atomic Alternatives in Europe The Soviet Invasion of Japan - Robert Cowley

Funeral in Berlin - David Clay Large The Cold War Turns Hot

China Without Tears - Arthur Waldron If Chiang Kai-shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946 A Quagmire Avoided? - Ted Morgan The End - Robert L. O'Connell