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What If? - Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R449
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What If? - Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, New edition)

Robert Cowley

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As an exercise, this has been done before, both in fiction and in academic writing, but it remains a popular game. A selection of top-class historians and writers make claims for how close history was to being different, and what the outcomes could have been. Thus, we have John Keegan on a Hitlerian victory, Geoffrey Parker on the triumph of the Spanish Armada against the English in 1588, Alistair Horne on Napoleon's triumph at Waterloo, and Victor Davis Hanson on the defeat of the putative Greek empire by the Persian in 480 BC, among many others. Fascinating and sobering. (Kirkus UK)
This collection of counterfactual essays by noted historians analyzes incidents from military history spanning 3000 years to the end of the 20th-century. Broad speculative analysis is built from a wealth of detail, as some major turning points of military history are re-examined.

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Imprint: Pan Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2001
Authors: Robert Cowley
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 395
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48724-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Theory of warfare & military science
Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > History > World history > General
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LSN: 0-330-48724-8
Barcode: 9780330487245

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