Description:If It Had Happened Otherwise is a 1931 collection of essays edited by J. C. Squire and published by Longmans, Green. Each essay in the collection could be considered alternate history or counterfactual history, a few written by leading historians of the period and one by Winston Churchill.
Guedalla, P. If the Moors in Spain had won.
Chesterton, G. K. If Don John of Austria had married Mary Queen of Scots.
Maurois, A. If Louis XVI had had an atom of firmness.
Belloc, H. If Drouet's cart had stuck.
Fisher, H. A. L. If Napoleon had escaped to America.
Nicolson, H. If Byron had become King of Greece.
Churchill, W. S. If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg.
Waldman, M. If Booth had missed Lincoln.
Ludwig, E. If the Emperor Frederick had not had cancer.
Squire, J. If it had been discovered in 1930 that Bacon really did write Shakespeare.
Knox, R. If the general strike had succeeded.
Petrie, C. If: a Jacobite fantasy.
Trevelyan, G. If Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo.
Taylor, A. J. P. If Archduke Ferdinand had not loved his wife.