RICHARD J. EVANS is one of the most prominent and widely read historians working today. His distinguished career, capped by the recent completion of his three-part history of the Third Reich, has placed him at the center of many of the most important historical debates of the past forty years.
[A] stimulating, thought-provoking and in places quite humorous
book that will be of interest to professionals and lay readers
alike. London Times"
Evans insists that some things are speculation, not history, and
generally useless possibly fun, but a distraction from serious
business. To those who enjoy such speculation, Evans will seem a
bit of a killjoy, and he seems to be fascinated, perhaps in spite
of himself, by the subject. His exploration of counterfactual
history is in part a history of the topic. New Republic"
Evans is at his best on questions of historical causation; what was
necessary for events to happen the way they did? . . . Altered
Pasts brings an impressive historical intelligence to bear on what
are too often dismissed as parlour games. . . . Evans makes a
bullishly enjoyable primer in the history of what might have been,
but it seems unlikely to succeed in making subjunctive history a
thing of the past. Telegraph"
Evans makes a very good case for real history. Guardian"
"Evans insists that some things are speculation, not history, and
generally useless possibly fun, but a distraction from serious
business.To those who enjoy such speculation, Evans will seem a bit
of a killjoy, and he seems to be fascinated, perhaps in spite of
himself, by the subject. His exploration of counterfactual history
is in part a history of the topic. New Republic"
"Evans makes a very good case for real history." Guardian"
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