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Virtual History
Niall Ferguson
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Description for Virtual History
Paperback. What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940? What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What if there had been no American Revolution? And what if John F Kennedy had lived? This book deals with these questions. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Edited by Niall Ferguson, Virtual History applies 'counterfactual' arguments to decisive moments in modern history.
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War?
What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940?
What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union?
How would England look if there had been no Cromwell?
What if there had been no American Revolution?
And what if John F. Kennedy had lived?
In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andrew Roberts to Michael Burleigh challenge the complacency of traditional accounts, exploring what might have been if nine of the most decisive ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics/Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241952252
SKU
V9780241952252
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About Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of ... Read more
Reviews for Virtual History
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
Literary Review
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, ... Read more
Literary Review
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, ... Read more