Phoenix Paperback Series: What Might Have Been (Paperback)

from JohnFair

This is an interesting premise; get twelve eminent historians take a period in history and write a piece looking at what might have happened had something gone slightly differently. None of the pieces are long and, it has to be said, most actually don't fulfil the brief terribly well with the aut...

from Michael.Rimmer

An interesting collection of essays, but sadly the story suggested by the book cover, "What if the Nazis Got to the Moon First" isn't one of them.The collection was spoiled for me by the last two essays, which appear to have been written by twin right-wing apologists, separated at birth by the At...

from ABVR

The "alternate history" subgenre encompasses everything from straight fiction (like Robert Harris's Fatherland) to straight non-fiction (like Robert Cowley's What If? series). This slender volume by Andrew Roberts covers the spectrum. Anne Somerset's essay on the conquest of England by the Spanis...

from MarthaJeanne

This book has several weaknesses. The first is that each contributor has decided how much real history and how much alternate history to include. In some cases it is not clear which is which. The second weakness is including the final two essays. Both are politically motivated and not historicall...

from john257hopper

I am always fascinated by the concept of conterfactual views of history, but this is a mixed bag. Some were good, like the successful Spanish Armada, successful Gunpowder Plot, Charles I winning the civil war and the alternative American civil war where the North fights against not only the South...