If the Allies Had Fallen
Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
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3.3 • 3 Ratings
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
What if Stalin had signed with the West in 1939? What if the Allies had been defeated on D-Day? What if Hitler had won the war?
From the Munich crisis and the dropping of the first atom bomb to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States and the D-Day landings, historians suggest “what might have been” if key events in World War II had gone differently.
Written by an exceptional team of historians as if these world-changing events had really happened. If The Allies Had Fallen is a spirited and terrifying alternate history, and a telling insight into the dramatic possibilities of World War II. Contributors include: Thomas M. Barker, Harold C. Deutsch, Walter S. Dunn, Robert M. Love, D. Clayton James, Bernard C. Nalty, Richard J. Overy, Paul Schratz, Dennis E. Showalter, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Anne Wells, and Herman S. Wolk.
Customer Reviews
Good book, misleading title
I bought this book expecting a non-fiction set of hypotheticals along the lines of the Man in the High Castle scenario (ie, what would the world have looked like if the axis has won WW2). This is very much not the case, although the book is nevertheless an interesting read. All the hypotheticals are what strategic what-ifs for within or before WW2 itself. What really struck me from reading it is the sense of the utter inevitability of Allied victory, primarily down to their vastly superior economic and logistical situation. It actually made me see that the way history actually played out was surprisingly unlikely and one of the better scenarios the Axis powers could have hoped for - that actually the Allies underperformed relative to their potential.