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History Revisited: The Great Battles: Eminent Historians Take On the Great Works of Alternative History
History Revisited The Great Battles Eminent Historians Take On the Great Works of Alternative History Author:J. David Markham (Editor), Mike Resnick (Editor) This anthology collects top stories in the alternate military-history genre by writers Harry Turtledove (2 stories), Kim Stanley Robinson, John Mina, William Saunders, Michael F. Flynn, and editor Mike Resnick and submits them to scrutiny by eminent historians to find out just how probable the events they describe really are. Address... more »ing pivotal historical events--including the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, the Battle of New Orleans, radical politics and Southern strategy in the mid-20th century, the Napoleonic wars, Alcibiades’s sack of Syracuse, the American Civil War, and Kenya’s fight for independence from Britain--this book seeks to find out how different circumstances could have affected world history. From one end of the historical spectrum to the other, this book looks at what didn't happen in military history to gain a richer understanding of all that did.
Contents:
Introduction (History Revisited: The Great Battles: Eminent Historians Take On the Great Works of Alternative History) • essay by J. David Markham
Southern Strategy (2002) / novelette by Michael F. Flynn
The Past Is a Different Place • essay by Jean Baker
Racial Clearings: Not Just a "Southern Strategy" • essay by James E. Waller
Empire (2002) / novelette by William Sanders
The Unlikely Empire • essay by J. David Markham
The Lucky Strike (1984) / novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Exceptionalism, the Atomic Bomb, and U.S.-Japanese Relations: Comments on "The Lucky Strike" • essay by Mark McNally
The Daimon (2002) / novella by Harry Turtledove
Alcibiades, Syracuse, and "What Next" • essay by Michael Whitby
Must and Shall (1995) / novelette by Harry Turtledove
Do Not Embrace Them Too Hastily: The Lost Cause and the Lost Soul of America • essay by James Marten
Vive l'Amiral (1998) / novelette by John Mina
"Vive L'Amiral": A Commentary • essay by John Sugden