

What If...? Vol 3
The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Author: Robert Cowley, Robert Cowley
Series: What If...? #1
Narrator: Murphy Guyer
Abridged: 4 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 06/01/2000
Categories: Nonfiction, History, World History, European History
Synopsis
This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost historians speculating on these "what ifs", providing a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include:
* Infectious Alternatives: The Plague that Saved Jerusalem
by William H. McNeil
* No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis
by Victor Davis Hanson
* Conquest Denied: Alexander the Great's Premature Death
by Josiah Ober
* Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg
by Lewis Lapham
* The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats
by Barry S. Strauss
* The Death that Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back
by Cecilia Holland
* If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer
by Theodore K. Rabb
* The Immolation of Hernán Cortés
by Ross Hassig