Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies M. Stanton Evans
What If...? Vol 3: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
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Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining.
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
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Lydbog: 1. juni 2000
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- Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland: A History Mike Tapia
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