What if? : military historians imagine what might have been / edited by Robert Cowley.

Infectious alternatives : the plague that saved Jerusalem, 701 B.C. / William H. McNeill --A good night's sleep can do wonders / Barbara N. Porter --No glory that was Greece : the Persians win at Salamis, 480 B.C. / Victor Davis Hanson --Conquest denied : the premature death of Alexander the Great / Josiah Ober --Furor Teutonicus : the Teutoburg forest, A.D. 9 / Lewis H. Lapham --The dark ages made lighter : the consequences of two defeats / Barry S. Strauss --The death that saved Europe : the Mongols turn back / Cecelia Holland --If only it had not been such a wet summer : the critical decade of the 1520s / Theodore K. Rabb --If the Holy League hadn't dithered / Peter Pierson --The immolation of Hérnan Cortés : Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 / Ross Hassig --The repulse of the English fireships : the Spanish Armada triumphs, August 8, 1588 / Geoffrey Parker --Unlikely victory : thirteen ways the Americans could have lost the Revolution / Thomas Fleming --George Washington's gamble / Ira D. Gruber --What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 / David McCullough --Ruler of the world : Napoleon's missed opportunities / Alistair Horne --Napoleon wins at Waterloo / Caleb Carr --If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the Union / James M. McPherson --A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios : how the Civil War might have turned out differently / Stephen W. Sears --Vietnam in America, 1865 / Tom Wicker --The what ifs of 1914 : the world war that should never have been / Robert Cowley --Bismarck's empire : stillborn / James Chace --Thanks, but no cigar / David Clay Large --The armistice of desperation / Dennis E. Showalter --How Hitler could have won the war : the drive for the Middle East, 1941 / John Keegan --What a taxi driver wrought / Williamson Murray --Triumph of the dictators / David Fromkin --Our midway disaster : Japan springs a trap, June 4, 1942 / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. --The case of the missing carriers / Elihu Rose --D Day fails : atomic alternatives in Europe / Stephen E. Ambrose --The Soviet invasion of Japan / Robert Cowley --Funeral in Berlin : the Cold War turns hot / David Clay Large --China without tears : if Chiang Kai-shek hadn't gambled in 1946 / Arthur Waldron --A quagmire avoided? / Ted Morgan --The end / Robert L. O'Connell.