ONCE AGAIN, GREAT LEADERS MAKE GREAT HISTORY - BUT NOT HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT...

History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under different circumstances?

• Suppose General Douglas MacArthur had been captured before he could escape from Manila and became a prisoner of war?
• What if the Prince of Peace came not with soft words but with a sword?
• Suppose Joan of Arc had not been burnt for heresy and had gone on to lead France very different victories?
• What if winning the Vietnam War turned out to be worse than losing it?
• Suppose Genghis Khan had been a convert to Judaism and his horde had fought for a different cause than in our universe?
• What if the Second Punic War got even weirder than than it did in our history - which, considering what really happened, ain't easy?
• Suppose even a victorious American Confederacy had trouble getting anyone to take it seriously?

Hugo Award-winner Harry Turtledove and his colleagues turn the past upside down and inside out, and the possibilities are endless...

Contents

• A Key to the Illuminated Heretic by A. M. Dellamonica
• The Road to Endless Sleep by Jim Fiscus
• Not Fade Away by William Sanders
• I Shall Return by John Mina
• Shock and Awe by Harry Turtledove
• A Good Bag by Brad Linaweaver
• The Burning Spear at Midnight by Mike Resnick
• "It isn't Every Day of the Week" by Roland J. Green
• Measureless to Man by Judith Tarr
• Over the Sea from Skye by Lillian Stewart Carl
• First, Catch Your Elephant by Esther M. Friesner
• East of Appomattox by Lee Allred
• Murdering Uncle Ho by Chris Bunch