Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction to this Edition (If It Had Happened Otherwise) • essay by Sir John Wheeler Bennett
• 1 • If the Moors in Spain Had Won • (1931) • short fiction by Philip Guedalla
• 21 • If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots • (1931) • short fiction by G. K. Chesterton
• 49 • If Louis XVI had had an Atom of Firmness • (1931) • short fiction by André Maurois (trans. of Si Louis XVI avait eu un grain de fermeté 1930)
• 79 • If Drouet's Cart had Stuck • (1931) • short fiction by Hilaire Belloc
• 113 • If Napoleon had Escaped to America • (1931) • novelette by H. A. L. Fisher
• 143 • If Byron had Become King of Greece • (1931) • essay by Harold Nicolson
• 173 • If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg • (1930) • essay by Winston S. Churchill
• 197 • If Booth had Missed Lincoln • (1931) • novelette by Milton Waldman
• 223 • If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer • (1931) • essay by Emil Ludwig
• 249 • If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write Shakespeare • (1931) • essay by J. C. Squire
• 277 • If the General Strike had Succeeded • (1931) • short fiction by Ronald A. Knox [as by Ronald Knox]
• 291 • If: A Jacobite Fantasy • (1926) • essay by Charles Petrie
• 299 • If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo • (1907) • short fiction by George Macaulay Trevelyan [as by G. M. Trevelyan]