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What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

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Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-its of history. In these twenty never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions:

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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..

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 395 pages

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