 Squire, J.C. (ed.). If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses Into Imaginary History. Translated to the German as Wenn Napoleon bei Waterloo gewonnen hätte, Heyne 1999. |
Squire, J.C. (ed.). If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses Into Imaginary History [vt If: or, History Rewritten].
Comments: The classic alternate history anthology.
Original edition includes
Hillaire Belloc's
"If Drouet's Cart had Stuck",
G.K. Chesterton's
"If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots",
Winston S. Churchill's
"If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg",
H.A.L. Fisher's
"If Napoleon had Escaped to America",
Philip Guedalla's
"If the Moors in Spain had Won",
Ronald Knox's
"If the General Strike had Succeeded",
Emil Ludwig's
"If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer",
André Maurois'
"If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness",
Harold Nicolson's
"If Byron had Become King of Greece",
J.C. Squire's
"If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write Shakespeare"
and Milton Waldman's
"If Booth had Missed Lincoln".
Revised edition (with alternative title) replaces Knox with
Hendrik Willem Van Loon's
"If the Dutch had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam".
The expanded edition adds to the original contents
Charles Petrie's
"If: A Jacobite Fantasy"
and G.M. Trevelyan's
"If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo".
The German edition translates the expanded edition and adds one more non-allohistorical item (the German edition also refers to Erik Simon's Alexanders langes Leben, Stalins früher Tod und andere abwegige Geschichten: Erzaehlungen und Berichte aus Parallelwelten, q.v., as a companion volume
and includes a list of divergence dates for the stories/essays in both volumes).
Published: As If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses Into Imaginary History,
Longmans, Green 1931.
—
Rev. ed. as If: or, History Rewritten,
Viking 1931
and
Kennikat 1964.
—
Expanded ed. with original title,
Sidgwick & Jackson 1972
and
St. Martin's 1974.
Original in: English.
Translation: German by Walter Brumm as
Wenn Napoleon bei Waterloo gewonnen hätte. Und andere abwegige Geschichten, Heyne 1999 (3453149114).
Bookstore: Listed by Amazon.com in hardcover.
