Description
Mi lett volna, ha..? by Andrew Roberts / Hungarian edition of What might have been - Imaginary history from twelve leading historians / Fejezetek a meg nem történt világtörténelemből / Corvina kiadó 2006
Paperback 2006
ISBN: 9789631355604 / 978-9631355604
ISBN: 9631355608
PAGES: 182
PUBLISHER: Corvina kiadó
LANGAUGE: HUNGARIAN / Magyar
Dimensions: 16.80 x 23.80 cm
Hungarian Summary:
Mi lett volna, ha... a spanyol armada partra száll Angliában, ha Napóleon legyőzi Oroszországot, ha Ferenc Ferdinánd túléli a szarajevói merényletet, ha Japán nem támadja meg Pearl Harbort? Ezekre és ehhez hasonló „történelmietlen" kérdésekre adnak szakszerű, (ál)tudományos választ a legtekintélyesebb, ám játékos kedvű angol és amerikai történészek ebben a rendkívül érdekes és szórakoztató, rendhagyó tanulmánykötetben.
English Summary:
A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.
'Stimulating, provocative and playful' Literary Review
Throughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew Roberts has asked a team of twelve leading historians and biographers what might have happened if major world events had gone differently? Each concentrating in the area in which they are a leading authority, historians as distinguished as Antonia Fraser (Gunpowder Plot), Norman Stone (Sarajevo 1914) and Anne Somerset (the Spanish Armada) consider: What if?
Robert Cowley demonstrates how nearly Britain won the American war of independence. Following her acclaimed GEORGIANA, Amanda Foreman muses on Lincoln's Northern States of America and Lord Palmerston's Great Britain going to war, as they so nearly did in 1861. Whether it's Stalin fleeing Moscow in 1941 (Simon Sebag Montefiore), or Napoleon not being forced to retreat from it in 1812 (Adam Zamoyski), the events covered here are important, world-changing ones.
About the Author:
Andrew Roberts FRHistS FRSL (born 13 January 1963) is a British historian and journalist. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, a Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New York Historical Society. Roberts was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he earned a first-class degree in Modern History.
His public commentary has appeared in several periodicals such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. Roberts himself is possibly best known internationally for his 2009 non-fiction work The Storm of War, which covers historical factors of the Second World War such as Hitler's rise to power and the organisation of Nazi Germany. The book has been lauded by several publications such as The Economist, and it additionally received the British Army Military Book of the Year Award for 2010.
Elsewhere, his work has sometimes been criticised by, for example, The Economist who described one book as "a giant political pamphlet larded with its author's prejudices, with sneers at those who do not share them and with errors". However, much of Roberts' work, including his 2018 biography of Winston Churchill, has been widely praised; the Sunday Times, for example, called the Churchill biography 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written.
