Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals

Fluent and entertaining. - The Times. Ferguson ...constructs an entire scenario starting with Charles I's defeat of the Covenanters, running through three revolutions, the American, the French and the Russian - that did not happen and climaxing with the collapse of the West, ruled by an Anglo American empire, in the face of a mighty transcontinental, tsarist Russian imperium...A welcome, optimistic assault on an intellectual heresy that has done much, much more harm than good. - Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times. Quite brilliant, inspiring for the layman and an enviable tour de force for the informed reader ...A wonderful book ...lucid, exciting and easy to read. - Claus von Bulow, Literary Review. Sizzling essays hot from the academic griddle. - Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday. The implications of Virtual History deserve to be meditated by every historian ...a talented and imaginative team of historians who tackle with counterfactual verve a series of mostly twentieth century turning points. - Christopher Andrew, Daily Telegraph.