Cowley, Robert

Presents 570 entries, arranged alphabetically, discussing the concepts, personalities, organizations, wars, battles, and general phenomena of military history, ranging from the origins of warfare in the Persian Wars of 490 B.C. through the ethnic cleansing of the late twentieth century.

Examines some famous historical events and asks how the world may have been different had the end result been changed.

Presents a collection of essays describing the Cold War between 1946 and 1991 by military historians including David McCullough and Steven Ambrose that covers topics such as the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, Korea and Vietnam, and more.

Contains seventeen essays in which historians examine key moments in American history and speculate on what might have happened if events had played out differently, considering topics such as what America would be like if there had been no Revolution, and what direction the country would have taken had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated.

Presents forty-five essays in which various historians offer their perspectives on specific events and different aspects of World War II. Includes maps.

Contains twenty chronologically arranged essays in which a variety of historians consider key events of military history, and imagine what "might have been" if certain outcomes had been different.