Hitler Triumphant: Alternate Decisions of World War II, edited by Peter Tsouras
Greenhill Books, 2006
288 pages. Maps, illustrations, 16 pages of b&w photos, no index
Library: 940.53 HIT
-Alternate scenarios based on real events and characters
-"What ifs' played out realistically with radical outcomes
-Written by eleven renowned military historians
Based on a series of fascinating "What ifs" posed by leading military historians, this compelling new alternate history reconstructs the moments during the Second World WAr which could conceivably have altered the entire course of the conflict and lef to a German victory.
Based on real battles, actions and characters, each scenario has been carefully constructed to reveal how at points of decision a different choice or minor incident could have set in motion an entirely new train of events altering history forever.
Scenarios in this volume range from the possibility of a British prime minister making peace with Hitler in 1940, through the fall of Malta in 1942 and its likely consequences, to the heavy defeat of Eisenhower's landings in northern France in 1943.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction
1. May day
-The premiership of Lord Halifax, by Nigel Jones
2. Peace in Our Time
-Memories of Life at Fuhrer Headquarters, by Charles Vasey
3. The Spanish Gambit
-Operation FELIX, by John Prados
4. Navigare Necesse Est, Vivere Non Est Necesses
-Mussolini and the Legacy of Pompey the GReat, by Wade G. Dudley
5. The Health of the State
-Italy and Global War, by David C. Isby
6. Black Cross, Green Crescent, Black Gold
-The Drive to Indus, by David M. Keithly
7. Wings over the Caucasus
-Operation LEONARDO, by Paddy Griffith
9. To the Last Drop od Blood
-The Fall of Moscow, by Kim H. Campbell
9. The Stalingrad Breakout
-"Raus pulls you Throu" by Peter G. Tsouras
10. For WAnt of an Island
-The Fall of Malta and German Victory, by John D. Burtt
11. Ike's Cockade
-Thee Allied Invasion of France 1943, by Stephen Badsey
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