- What If? 2
"What If? 2", subtitled "Eminent
Historian s Imagine What Might Have Been", is a collection of twenty-fiveessay s dealing with counterfactual history. It was published byG.P. Putnam's Sons in 2001, ISBN 0-399-14795-0, and edited byRobert Cowley . It is the successor of "What If?" It was combined with the original What If? in "The Collected What If?".Essays
* "
Socrates Dies at Delium, 424 B.C." byVictor Davis Hanson
** What if Socrates had died before hisphilosophy was written down byPlato ?
* "Not By A Nose" byJosiah Ober
** What if Antony and Cleopatra had won theBattle of Actium ?
* "Pontius Pilate SparesJesus " byCarlos M. N. Eire
** What if Jesus had not been crucified and instead lived into old age?
* "Repulse at Hastings,October 14 ,1066 " byCecelia Holland
** What if William had not conqueredEngland ?
* "The Chinese Discovery of theNew World , 15th century" byTheodore F. Cook, Jr.
** What ifZheng He 's expeditions had been allowed to continue?
* "Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521" byGeoffrey Parker
** What if Martin Luther had been sentenced to death at theDiet of Worms ?
* "If Charles I Had Not LeftWhitehall , August 1641" byTheodore K. Rabb
** What if the English king had died from anoutbreak of plague in 1641?
* "Napoléon's Invasion ofNorth America " by Thomas Fleming
** What ifyellow fever had not decimated the French forces inHaiti in 1802?
* "If Lincoln Had Not Freed the Slaves" byTom Wicker
** What if there was noEmancipation Proclamation ?
* "France Turns the Other Cheek, July 1870" byAlistair Horne
** What if there had been noFranco-Prussian War ?
* "The Election ofTheodore Roosevelt , 1912" byJohn Lukacs
** What if Roosevelt had received the Republican nomination for President in 1912?
* "The Great War Torpedoed" byRobert L. O'Connell
** What if GermanChancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg had urgedKaiser Wilhelm II to accept a negotiated settlement in December 1914?
* "No Finland Station" byGeorge Feifer
** What if Lenin had been stopped before he arrived at St. Petersburg?
* "The Luck ofFranklin Delano Roosevelt " byGeoffrey C. Ward
** What if FDR's life or circumstances had been different in the 20th century? (Seven counterfactual scenarios are presented here.)
* "The War of 1938" byWilliamson Murray
** What if Britain and France had declared war on NaziGermany after the invasion ofCzechoslovakia ?
* "Prime Minister Halifax" byAndrew Roberts
** What if Lord Halifax had been Prime Minister instead of Churchill?
* "The Boys Who SavedAustralia , 1942" by James Bradley
** What if the Japanese had won theKokoda Track Campaign ?
* "Enigma Uncracked" byDavid Kahn
** What ifBletchley Park had failed to crack theWehrmacht Enigma code?
* "Pius XII Protests TheHolocaust " byRobert Katz
** What if the Vatican had been more forceful against the Nazi regime?
* "VE Day --November 11 ,1944 " byCaleb Carr
** What if Patton and Montgomery's armies had been allowed to advance intoGermany afterD-Day rather than pursue a "broad front" strategy?
* "TheFührer in the Dock" byRoger Spiller
** What if Hitler had lived to stand trial?
* "No Bomb, No End" byRichard B. Frank
** What if Operation Olympic had proceeded onNovember 1 ,1945 ?
* "ThePresidency ofHenry Wallace " byJames Chace
** What if Franklin Roosevelt had not chosenHarry S. Truman as his 1944 running mate?
* "A Tale of ThreeCongressmen , 1948" byLance Morrow
** What if Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy had chosen different paths than they did?
* "What if Pizarro Had Not FoundPotato es inPeru ?" byWilliam H. McNeill
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