Dimensions
178 x 178 x 25mm
The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
4 Cassettes
In this volume of 'What If . . .?' William H McNeill tells about the plague that saved Jerusalem; Victor Davis Hanson asks if Western civilisation as we know it would exist if the Persians had won at Salamis; Josiah Ober discusses the premature death of Alexander the Great; Lewis H Lapham envisions a kinder, gentler Germany if the Romans had won the battle of Teutoburg Forest in AD 9; Barry S Strauss makes the Dark Ages lighter; Cecelia Holland shows how the death of one Mongul changed the course of European history; Theodore K Rabb discusses the rainy summer of 1529; and Ross Hassig describes the luck of the Spanish.