Virtual History
  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241957646
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560
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Virtual History

Alternatives and Counterfactuals

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2 Jun 2011
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9 Jun 2011
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What would the world now look like if the historical events we are all so familiar with had turned out completely differently?

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never collapsed? And what if John F. Kennedy had lived?

In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andrew Roberts to Michael Burleigh explore what might have been if nine of the most decisive moments in modern history had never happened.
  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241957646
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 560
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About the author

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is a Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus and, most recently, The War of the World. He, his wife and three children divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Praise for Virtual History

A talented and imaginative team who tackle with counterfactual verve a series of turning points

Daily Telegraph

Ferguson constructs an entire scenario starting with Charles I's defeat of the Covenanters, running through three revolutions that did not happen and climaxing with the collapse of the West, ruled by an Anglo-American empire, in the face of a mighty transcontinental, tsarist Russian imperium ... A welcome, optimistic assault on an intellectual heresy

Sunday Times

Quite brilliant, inspiring for the layman and an enviable tour de force for the informed reader ... A wonderful book ... lucid, exciting and easy to read

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