Analysing the repercussions of what didn't happen next

Altered Pasts Counterfactuals in History. By Richard J Evans. Little, Brown, €25.20. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.

Altered Pasts

**Counterfactuals in History**

**By** Richard J Evans

**Little, Brown,** €25.20

**Reviewed by** Dermot Bolger

.....

Only two types of people engage in the practice of counterfactual historical speculation: professional historians who get paid to do so and the rest of us who - without knowing what this genre is called - do it anyway.

One counterfactual historical theory much debated by my sons and me is our speculation as to what ...