The Ifs of History


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(3.7 stars; 3 reviews)

A series of short vignettes that speculate on what how history would have changed in response to a small change in an event. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle (3 hr 4 min)

Chapters

Preface 3:34 Read by Stacey Malcolm
If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election 6:55 Read by AJMcKinse
If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours 9:05 Read by Ted Perkins
If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma 6:12 Read by Arnav Darnal
If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward 8:48 Read by Piotr Nater
If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter 7:31 Read by Arnav Darnal
If the Philarmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza 8:11 Read by jenno
If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time 5:53 Read by Kinross
If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay 8:22 Read by Alexandra Offiong
If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia 9:35 Read by Arnav Darnal
If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William 9:17 Read by madsparrow
If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman 7:48 Read by Christine Rottger
If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane 6:01 Read by Tay N
If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check 7:28 Read by esharp
If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York into the Union 8:00 Read by Owlivia
If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans 10:21 Read by Bruce Powell
If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle 10:32 Read by Leanne Cvetan
If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward 9:46 Read by Alexandra Offiong
If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese 9:04 Read by Larry Wilson
If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III 5:07 Read by Glys
If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860 7:35 Read by AJMcKinse
If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run 8:29 Read by Laura Luchsinger
If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861 10:34 Read by Garfield Dsouza

Reviews

A fanciful exploration of alternative history


(3 stars)