What If? Essays

It has often been said that history is written by the winners, but historians often wonder would have happened if history's most momentous conflicts had turned out differently. What would have happened if the South had won the American Civil War? Where would we be today if the storm around the Normandy coast in 1944 had been worse and the D-Day invasion had failed? Or if the Spanish Armada had safely reached England in 1588? What If? is a fascinating and entertaining book - a look at how things might have been, with speculative essays from some of the world's most distinguished historians.