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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Infectious Alternatives: The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 701 B.C. | |
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| A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders | |
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| No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B.C. | |
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| Conquest Denied: The Premature Death of Alexander the Great | |
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| Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 | |
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| The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats | |
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| The Death That Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back, 1242 | |
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| If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s | |
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| If the Holy League Hadn't Dithered | |
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| The Immolation of Hernan Cortes: Tenochtitlan, June 30, 1521 | |
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| The Repulse of the English Fireships: The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588 | |
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| Unlikely Victory: Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution | |
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| George Washington's Gamble | |
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| What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 | |
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| Ruler of the World: Napoleon's Missed Opportunities | |
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| Napoleon Wins at Waterloo | |
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| If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 | |
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| A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios: How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently | |
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| Vietnam in America, 1865 | |
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| The What Ifs of 1914: The World War That Should Never Have Been | |
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| Bismarck's Empire: Stillborn | |
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| Thanks, But No Cigar | |
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| The Armistice of Desperation | |
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| How Hitler Could Have Won the War: The Drive for the Middle East, 1941 | |
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| What a Taxi Driver Wrought | |
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| Triumph of the Dictators | |
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| Our Midway Disaster: Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 | |
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| The Case of the Missing Carriers | |
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| D Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe | |
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| The Soviet Invasion of Japan | |
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| Funeral in Berlin: The Cold War Turns Hot | |
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| China Without Tears: If Chiang Kai-shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946 | |
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| A Quagmire Avoided? | |
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| The End | |
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