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
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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 ...