Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History
256 pages
|Published: 5 Jan 2014
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This edition
ISBN: 9781938466236
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Queens Ferry Press
Publication date: 7 January 2014
Description
At critical moments in world history, every political, spiritual, and cultural leader foresaw a different destiny. Columbus planned a Western sea route to Asia; Hitler applied to art school twice; Joan of Arc prophesied that she would become a mother. It is out of their failures that history itself is made. But what if the history-makers succeeded in the fulfillment of their best-laid plans? In Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History, Phong Nguyen explores a myriad of pasts in which these icons of history made a different choice, and got what they wished for.
