Other Roads · Alternate Outcomes of the Second World War - 2nd Edition

‘Other Roads’, in 20 chapters, is a collection of alternative outcomes that could so easily have occurred in the era of the Second World in place of the history we know. It considers a wide range of ‘what if?’ topics including, among others, a Nazi victory in the war, the consequences of Winston Churchill’s death in 1931, the Japanese invasion being resisted successfully in China, the war between Germany and Czechoslovakia in 1938, a successful defence of Norway, Italy remaining neutral, German invasions of Switzerland and Cyprus, the Japanese invasion of India, and the imposition of the Morgenthau Plan leading to the creation of three pastoral Germanies.

‘Other Roads’, the first of a trilogy, draws on Alexander Rooksmoor’s two decades researching and teaching history and analysing and debating counterfactuals. Mixing fact and well-informed speculation it looks at both the detailed changes that could have occurred as well as much broader potential outcomes. This is a book that will fascinate anyone with an interest in why a central event of modern history unfolded the way it did. Fans of alternate history will find ‘Other Roads’ a book they cannot put down and will be burning to argue about once they have finished reading it.