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 the 'what ifs', providding a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include: The Peace of 11944 by Robertr Crowley, How Hitler Could Have Won the War by John Keegan, Our Midway Disaster by Theodore F. Cook, D-Day Fails by Stephen Ambrose, The Cold War Turns Hot by David Clay Large and China Without Tears by Arthur Waldron. Read by John Cunningham and Janet Zarish. Abridged. 4 cassettes. 4.5 hours.
