Contributor
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Imprint:New York : Berkley Books, c2000.
Descriptionxiv, 395 p. : illus., maps, plans ; 23 cm.
Note:Infectious alternatives: the plague that saved Jerusalem, 701 B.C. / William H. McNeill -- No glory that was Greece: the Persians win at Salamis, 480 B.C. / Victor Davis Hanson -- Conquest denied: the premature death of Alexander the Great / Josiah ober -- Furor Teutonicus: the Tuetoburg Forest, A.D. 9 / Lewis H. Lapham -- The Dark Ages made lighter: the consequences of two defeats / Barry S. Strauss -- The death that saved Europe: the Mongols turn back, 1242 / Cecelia Holland -- If only it had not been such a wet summer: the critical decade of the 1520s / Theodore K. Rabb -- The immolation of Hernán Cortés: Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 / Ross Hassig -- The repulse of the English fireships: the Spanish Armada triumphs, August 8, 1588 / Geoffrey Parker -- Unlikely victory: thirteen ways the Americans could have lost the revolution / Thomas Fleming -- What the fog wrought: the Revolution's Dunkird, August 29, 1776 / David McCullough -- Ruler of the world: Napoleon's missed opportunities / Alistair Horne -- If the lost order hadn't been lost: Robert E. Lee humbles the Union, 1862 / James M. McPherson -- A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios: how the Civil War might have turned out differently / Stephen W. Sears -- The what ifs of 1914: the world that should never have been / Robert Cowley -- How Hitler could have won the war: the drive for the Middle East, 1941 / John Keegan -- Our Midway disaster: Japan springs a trap, June 4, 1942 / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- D Day fails: atomic alternatives in Europe / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Funeral in Berlin: the cold war turns hot / David Clay Large -- China without tears: if Chiang Kai-shek hadn't gambled in 1946 / Arthur Waldron.
