Czechoslovakia? "Prime Minister Halifax" by Andrew Roberts What if Lord Halifax had been Prime Minister instead of Churchill? "The Boys Who Saved Australia, 1942" by James Bradley What if the Japanese had won the Kokoda Track campaign? "Enigma Uncracked" by David Kahn What if Bletchley Park had failed to crack the Wehrmacht Enigma code? "Pius XII Protests The Holocaust" by Robert Katz What if the Vatican had been more forceful against the Nazi regime? "VE Day—November 11, 1944" by Caleb Carr What if Patton and Montgomery's armies had been allowed to advance into Germany after D-Day rather than pursue a "broad front" strategy? "The Führer in the Dock" by Roger Spiller What if Hitler had lived to stand trial? "No Bomb, No End" by Richard B. Frank What if Operation Olympic had proceeded on November 1, 1945? "The Presidency of Henry Wallace" by James Chace What if Franklin Roosevelt had not chosen Harry S. Truman as his 1944 running mate? "A Tale of Three Congressmen, 1948" by Lance Morrow What if Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy had chosen different paths than they did? "What if Pizarro Had Not Found Potatoes in Peru?" by William H. McNeill Reviews "As a mental exercise or from simple curiosity, it is not uncommon to wonder what might have happened if an event had ended other than as history records." —Washington Times "A follow-up to the 1999 book by prominent historians who each examine a key moment in history and theorize how a slight turn of fate at a decisive moment could have changed history. The first book helped give alternate history its 'serious' look, and this book should cement that." —USA Today See also What If? (essays) What Ifs? of American History References 2001 non-fiction books Alternate history anthologies American non-fiction books G. P. Putnam's Sons books Essay anthologies Cultural depictions of Mark Antony Cultural depictions of Augustus Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill Cultural depictions of Cleopatra Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler Cultural depictions of Lyndon B. Johnson Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy Cultural depictions of Vladimir Lenin Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln Cultural depictions of Martin Luther Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon Cultural depictions of George S. Patton Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt Cultural depictions of Theodore Roosevelt Cultural depictions of William Howard Taft Cultural depictions of Wilhelm II Cultural depictions of William the Conqueror American Civil War alternate histories World War