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• xi • Introduction (What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been) • (1999) • essay by Robert Cowley
• 1 • Infectious Alternatives: The Plague That Saved Jerusalem, 01 B.C. • (1999) • essay by William H. McNeill
• 13 • A Good Night's Sleep Can Do Wonders • (1999) • essay by Barbara N. Porter
• 15 • No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis, 480 B.C. • (1999) • essay by Victor Davis Hanson
• 37 • Conquest Denied: The Premature Death of Alexander the Great • (1999) • essay by Josiah Ober
• 57 • Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 • (1999) • essay by Lewis Lapham
• 71 • The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats • (1999) • essay by Barry S. Strauss
• 93 • The Death That Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back, 1242 • (1999) • essay by Cecelia Holland
• 107 • If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s • (1999) • essay by Theodore K. Rabb
• 119 • If the Holy League Hadn't Dithered • (1999) • essay by Peter Pierson
• 121 • The Immolation of Hernán Cortes: Tenochtitlán, June 30, 1521 • (1999) • essay by Ross Hassig
• 139 • The Repulse of the English Fireships: The Spanish Armada Triumphs, August 8, 1588 • (1999) • essay by Geoffrey Parker
• 155 • Unlikely Victory: Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution • (1999) • essay by Thomas Fleming
• 187 • George Washington's Gamble • (1999) • essay by Ira D. Gruber
• 189 • What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 • (1999) • essay by David McCullough
• 201 • Ruler of the World: Napoleon's Missed Opportunities • (1999) • essay by Alistair Horne
• 220 • Napoleon Wins at Waterloo • (1999) • essay by Caleb Carr
• 223 • If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 • (1999) • essay by James M. McPherson
• 239 • A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios: How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently • (1999) • essay by Stephen W. Sears
• 259 • Vietnam in America, 1865 • (1999) • essay by Tom Wicker
• 261 • The What Ifs of 1914: The World War That Should Never Have Been • (1999) • essay by Robert Cowley
• 288 • Bismarck's Empire: Stillborn • (1999) • essay by James Chace
• 290 • Thanks, But No Cigar • (1999) • essay by David Clay Large
• 292 • The Armistice of Desperation • (1999) • essay by Dennis E. Showalter
• 295 • How Hitler Could Have Won the War: The Drive for the Middle East, 1941 • (1999) • essay by John Keegan (historian)
• 306 • What a Taxi Driver Wrought • (1998) • short fiction by Williamson Murray
• 308 • Triumph of the Dictators • (1999) • essay by David Fromkin
• 311 • Our Midway Disaster: Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 • (1999) • essay by Theodore F. Cook, Jr.
• 340 • The Case of the Missing Carriers • (1999) • essay by Elihu Rose
• 341 • D Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe • (1999) • essay by Stephen E. Ambrose
• 349 • The Soviet Invasion of Japan • (1999) • essay by Robert Cowley
• 351 • Funeral in Berlin: The Cold War Turns Hot • (1999) • essay by David Clay Large
• 377 • China Without Tears: If Chiang Kai-shek Hadn't Gambled in 1946 • (1999) • essay by Arthur Waldron
• 393 • A Quagmire Avoided? • (1999) • essay by Ted Morgan
• 394 • The End • (1999) • essay by Robert L. O'Connell