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Book of Alternative History.With great full-color photos and compelling narratives, historical experts take a look at these and many more intriguing questions in this fascinating look at what might have been. Perfect for browsing, this title will have readers speculating on the events and people that shaped history and make our lives what they are today.
- What If…A Book of Alternative History Paperback - Amazon.co.uk
The Book of Alternative History, experts consider what might...
- What If…A Book of Alternative History Paperback - Amazon.co.uk
Jan 30, 2024 · Book of Alternative History, Vol.2 is out now! This new edition of our popular alternate history bookazine, based on the regular feature in All About History magazine, brings you even more expert analysis of important historical events taking a different path. Topics include the failure of Dunkirk, Pompey defeating Julius Caesar, Richard Nixon ...
- What If The South Won The Civil War?
- What If Charles Lindbergh Were Elected President in 1940?
- What If Hitler Successfully Invaded Russia?
- What If James Dean Had Survived His Car Crash?
- What If President Kennedy Had Survived The Assassination attempt?
- What If Christianity Missed The West?
- What If The Beatles Had Broken Up in 1966?
- What If The Romans Won The Battle of The Teutoburg Forest?
- What If The Protestant Reformation Never Happened?
- What If Napoleon Had Kept Going?
Effect: America becomes one nation again… in 1960. Explanation: In a 1960 article published in Lookmagazine, author and Civil War buff MacKinlay Kantor envisioned a history in which the Confederate forces won the Civil War in 1863, forcing the despised President Lincoln into exile. The Southern forces annex Washington, DC — renaming it the District...
Effect: America joins the Nazis. Explanation: Philip Roth’s bestselling novel, The Plot Against America(2002), gives us an alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh, trans-Atlantic pilot and all-American hero, becomes the Republican presidential candidate in 1940, defeating the incumbent Franklin Roosevelt. President Lindbergh, a white supremaci...
Effect: The Fuhrer is revered in history as a great leader. Explanation: In Robert Harris’ novel Fatherland (the basis for a 1994 TV movie), Nazi Germany successfully invades Russia in 1942. Learning that Britain has broken the Enigma code, however, the Nazis play it safe and make peace with the west. Through the magic of propaganda, Hitler is reve...
Effect: Robert Kennedy survives his assassination attempt. Explanation: Jack Dann’s 2004 novel The Rebelportrays a history in which film star James Dean survives his fatal car crash in 1955. “I just changed that one thing,” said Dann, who copiously researched his book, making it “as factual as I could… By exploring Dean as he matures, I'm able to c...
Effect: Republicans win every election for the next 30 years. Explanation: The 1963 Kennedy assassination is a popular event of alternate history, inspiring novels, stage plays and short story collections. In an essay in the book What Ifs? of American History(2003), Robert Dallek, a Kennedy biographer, suggested that Kennedy would have successfully...
Effect: The Enlightenment starts early – and lasts a thousand years. Explanation: French philosopher Charles Renouvier’s book Uchronie(1876) suggested a history in which Christianity didn’t come to the west through the Roman Empire, due to a small change of events after the reign of Marcus Aurelius. In this history, while the word of Christ still s...
Effect: Ronald Reagan is assassinated in 1985 (obviously). Explanation: Edward Morris’s story "Imagine" (published in the magazine Interzone in 2005) is written as an article by the legendary rock journalist Lester Bangs, which reminisces about Beatlemania – and the Beatles being banned in California after John Lennon controversially states that th...
Effect: No one would speak English. Explanation: In What If? (1999), edited by Robert Cowley, historians pondered what would happen if historical events had turned out differently. Many of these were popular questions — What if the Americans lost the Revolutionary War? What if the D-Day invasion had failed in 1944? But an essay by the late Lewis H....
Effect: Christianity would continue to rule the world. Science, not so much. Explanation: Renowned novelist Kingsley Amis entered alternate-history territory in 1976 with his award-winning novel The Alteration. In his imagined history, Henry VIII’s short-lived older brother, Arthur, has a son just before his death. When Henry tries to usurp his nep...
Effect: Revolution in South America. Explanation: Probably the first book-length alternate history, Napoleon and the Conquest of the World: 1812-1823 (published in 1836) imagined that Napoleon, rather than freezing in Moscow in 1812, sought out and destroyed the Russian army. One chapter mentions a fantasy novel in which the Emperor suffered a majo...
- Mark Juddery
Jan 1, 2001 · Maybe my appreciation of the book is because it isn't about history but the near-history. Like a Lipstick Traces of close calls, near misses, and improbable long shots that still panned out, the book careens through the turbulent times of our bloody world to land, safely at last, on the deeply disturbing idea that the world is happenstance, coincidence, error, and seriously dim bulbs with ...
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Apr 10, 2023 · D ive into a one-of-a-kind alternate history book that hypothesizes what may have happened if Rome never fell, if Abraham Lincoln wasn't assassinated, if Germany had won World War I, and so much more. Each monumental event includes detailed articles by expert historians, professors, and scholars that pose hypothetical answers to various questions, potential timelines, and full-color ...
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- Jeff Greenfield, Catherine Curzon, Elizabeth Norton
Jan 1, 2018 · The Book of Alternative History, experts consider what might have happened if key moments in time had gone differently, including the Nazis winning World War Two, Abraham Lincoln surviving his assassination, the Allies losing the Battle of the Atlantic, China discovering America first, and much more. Each one is complemented by astonishing ...
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The Book of Alternative History, experts consider what might have happened if key moments in time had gone diff erently, including the Nazis winning World War II, Abraham Lincoln surviving his assassination, the Allies losing the Battle of the Atlantic, China discovering America fi rst, and much more.
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