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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright
The Authors
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Dress Rehearsal Crisis 1938
A. What if in September 1938, the western powers had foresworn appeasement or lagged in it sufficiently to permit German military conspirators to strike at Hitler?
B. What if war had come in September 1938 instead of a year later?
C. What if one of the foreign military attaché plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the early spring of 1939 had been carried out successfully?
Chapter 2: August-September 1939
A. What if Stalin had signed with the west?
B. What if Hitler had recognized that the western powers would fight, and that a long war was in prospect?
C. What if the French had launched an all-out attack to help the Poles?
Chapter 3: Phony and Hot War 1939-40
A. What if the Germans had not invaded Scandinavia?
B. What if the Germans had launched their main attack through Belgium instead of the Ardennes?
C. What if the Germans had pushed the attack on Dunkirk?
D. What if France had continued the war?
E. What if Britain had sued for peace in 1940?
Chapter 4: Hitler's Attack on Russia
A. What if the Germans had delayed Barbarossa until after dealing with Great Britain in 1942 or 1943?
B. What if Stalin had heeded clear warnings of the impending German attack and launched a preemptive attack as proposed by Zhukov?
C. What if Stalin had adopted the supposed Shaposhnikov proposal for concentrating defenses along the Stalin line (pre-1939 borders)?
D. What if Hitler had striven to make allies of the Soviet people?
Chapter 5: Germany versus the Soviet Union
A. What if German Army Group Center had continued its advance on Moscow in August 1941 rather than participating in the Kiev operation?
B. What if the German 1942 summer offensive had been focused on Moscow?
C. What if the German 1942 summer offensive had concentrated on a single southern objective (e.g. Stalingrad)?
D. What if the Japanese had joined the German attack prior to December 1941?
Chapter 6: Pearl Harbor
A. What if the Japanese Navy had launched a second strike against Pearl Harbor in December 1941?
B. What if the United States had been able to read the Japanese naval code JN-25 with its message of the coming attack?
C. What if Hitler had not declared war on the United States after Pearl Harbor?
Chapter 7: The Pacific War
A. What if MacArthur had been left to surrender on Corregidor?
B. What if MacArthur had been obliged to bypass the Philippines?
C What if the Allies had invaded the Amoy and South Formosa areas?
Chapter 8: The Mediterranean
A. What if Adolf Hitler in 1940-41, instead of concentrating on an attack on the Soviet Union, had pursued an all-out Mediterranean strategy in continuing war with Britain?
B. What if the allies had invaded Sardinia and Corsica instead of Sicily in 1943?
C. What if the Allies had chosen the Ljubljana Gap rather than ANVIL in 1944 or 1945?
Chapter 9: The June 1944 Invasion
A. What if the invasion had been attempted in 1942? or in 1943?
B. What if the Germans had detected that Operation “Fortitude” was a ruse?
C. What if the Allies had been repulsed on D-Day?
Chapter 10: 20 July 1944
A. What if the allies had offered more favorable peace conditions to a post-Hitler government?
B. What if Rommel had not become incapacitated on 17 July 1944, but had remained in command of Army Group B on 20 July 1944, with Kluge in command as Supreme Commander West?
C. What if Hitler had been killed on 20 July 1944?
Chapter 11: The Final Stage of the War in Europe
Chapter 12: The Ultra Secret
A. What if Ultra had not been available to the London government before the Battles of France and Britain?
B. What if Ultra had not been available for the war in North Africa?
C. What if Ultra had not been available for the Battle of the Atlantic?
D. What if Ultra had not been available for the invasion of the continent?
E. What if fullest advantage had been taken of the opportunities afforded by Ultra to conclude the war in Western Europe after the summer of 1944?
F. What if communication intelligence had not been available during the Pacific War?
Chapter 13: Hitler's Role
A. What if Hitler had not held up rocket research?
B. What if Hitler had not held up the Messerschmitt 262?
C. What if Hitler had left soldiering to the soldiers?
Chapter 14: The Conclusion of the Pacific War
A. What if the United States had responded favorably to Japanese peace overtures from the emperor's entourage in late 1944 and early 1945?
B. What if the United States had not bribed the Soviets to enter the war?
C. What if no A-bomb had existed or, if so, none had been dropped?
D. What if a Japanese surrender had been sought by “demonstrating” the bomb?
E. What if the allies had invaded the Japanese homeland?
Chapter 15: The War at Sea
A. What if Britain had rearmed earlier in the 1930s or had adopted a wartime naval strategy consistent with her fleet strength?
B. What if the British had not acquired Ultra and the ability to decipher the German U-boat command traffic?
C. What if the Germans had adopted a naval building policy and strategy before and during World War II more consistent with their resources and political objectives?
D. What if the Japanese had adopted an entirely different building policy and strategy before they opted for a suicidal war with the western naval powers in 1941?
E. What if the U.S. Navy had fully rearmed in the 1930s and had been truly prepared in December 1941 to fight a two-ocean war?
F. What if the Allies had invaded France in 1943? (The naval aspect.)
Chapter 16: The Air War
A. What if the British had not devoted a major portion of their war effort to strategic bombing?
B. What if Hitler had pushed the development of the jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262 as an interceptor rather than a fighter-bomber?
C. What if Allied strategic bombers had attacked German electrical power rather than the oil industry?
D. What if General Kenney had persuaded General Arnold to deploy the B-29s to the Southwest Pacific?
E. What if, due to critical engineering and production difficulties, the B-29 had not become operational at all in 1944?
Chapter 17: What if Hitler had won the war?
A. What if Hitler had been able to negotiate peace with Britain in June-July 1940?
B. What if Germany had conquered Britain, most probably by invasion, in the summer of 1940?
C. What if the Wehrmacht had defeated the Red Army in the summer and autumn of 1941 in Operation Barbarossa?
D. What if peace or perhaps an open-ended “truce” had been negotiated between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1942-43?
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