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Synopsis
A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.
Throughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew Roberts has asked a team of twelve leading historians and biographers what might have happened if major world events had gone differently? Each concentrating in the area in which they are a leading authority, historians as distinguished as Antonia Fraser (Gunpowder Plot), Norman Stone (Sarajevo 1914) and Anne Somerset (the Spanish Armada) consider: What if?
Robert Cowley demonstrates how nearly Britain won the American war of independence. In her first publication since her acclaimed GEORGIANA, Amanda Foreman muses on Lincoln's Northern States of America and Lord Palmerston's Great Britain going to war, as they so nearly did in 1861. Whether it's Stalin fleeing Moscow in 1941 (Simon Sebag Montefiore), or Napoleon not being forced to retreat from it in 1812 (Adam Zamoyski), the events covered here are important, world-changing ones.
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About the Author
Andrew Roberts took a first in Modern History at Cambridge. He has been a professional historian since the publication of his life of Lord Halifax , The Holy Fox, in 1991. He contributes regularly to the Sunday Telegraph. Lives in Knightsbridge, London, and has two children. His Salisbury won the Wolfson History Prize in 2000. He published Napoleon and Wellington in 2001.
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A gifted team of authors envisages alternative historical scenarios. As has become the custom of the genre, some of the contributors submit sober and measured assessments, while others spot a chance for playfulness―SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN is a highly enjoyable read―SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
Thought-provoking entertainment.―DAILY EXPRESS
The role that chance can play (in history) is well worth reasserting, and it is done here with much vigour and expertise―DAILY TELEGRAPH
The main object of these essays is to entertain, and they do so handsomely. This book is a hymn to the accidental and the erratic―Philip Ziegler, DAILY TELEGRAPH
Stimulating, provocative and playful, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, is everything one looks for in a collection of essays―LITERARY REVIEW
Roberts himself contributes both the best essay in the collection ... and an affable, perceptive introduction which he deploys to muse on the nature of such virtual historical projections―THE SCOTSMAN
Great fun. I enjoyed some of the chapters so much that I shouted praise for its frivolous merits at my television set when a young historian - arguing on Newsnight with my old friend Christopher Andrew - denounced the whole idea of 'alternative history'―Roy Hattersley, OBSERVER
Counterfactual history, when deployed as expertly as it is here, reminds us that what seems inevitable is actually often a matter of chance―MAIL ON SUNDAY
Buy the book and read it for fun―OBSERVER
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0753818736
- ISBN 13 9780753818732
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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