What If? Essays (Principia Moderni III Map Game)

What If? Is a collection of essays by eminent historians prospecting over how history may have diverged due to a change in time. It was published by Rupert Cohen in 1999.

Selected List of Essays

 * Not Even a Drop of Rain
 * The Holy City is captured by Yemen
 * If the Holy League had Dithered
 * Ottomans survive 1454
 * The Immolation of Charles of Castille
 * ​Tenochtitlan, 1520
 * Repulse of the Livonian Fireships
 * ​Pskov Armada triumphs, 1612
 * Unlikely Victory
 * Seven ways New Austria could have lost the Borealian Revolution
 * Lasuen's Gamble
 * ​Newburg dies in the Arcadian Revolution
 * What the Ice Wrought
 * ​Scandinavia's D-Day, 1811
 * Ruler of the World
 * Charles of Hispania's missed opportunities
 * Chuck Wins at Buenos Aires
 * ​An empire persists in Osea
 * If the Lost Order Wasn't Lost
 * Philip Cortex humbles the Hesperian League, 1852
 * A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios
 * How the Andean Civil War might have turned out differently
 * Guerillas in the Amazon
 * The Osean War is truly endless
 * What Ifs of 1908
 * The World War I that should never have been
 * Mary's Empire: Stillborn
 * The German Commonwealth falls apart
 * Thanks,But No Cigar
 * Jacque Dechamp dies unexpectantly
 * The Armistice of Desperation
 * The Caliphate challenges Rome
 * How Frederick Could Have Won the War
 * Germany saves India, 1952
 * What a Sea Captain Wrought
 * Alfonso of Brazil perishes at sea, 1933
 * Triumph of the Illuminati
 * France and Rome strike a deal, 1908
 * Our Midway Disaster
 * Japan Springs a Trap, 1949
 * For Want of Sand
 * ​Germany Surrenders Australia, 1928
 * D-Day Fails
 * Atomic Alternatives in Germany
 * The Borealian Invasion of Japan
 * The Congress of New Vienna ends neutrality, 1910
 * Funeral in Hyderbad
 * World War III in Central Asia
 * China Without Tears
 * If Emperor Shun Ling hadn't gambled in 1894
 * A Quagmire Avoided?
 * Mexeca's victory in Belize, 1887
 * The End
 * The Kuban Crisis ends in nuclear war
 * The Chinese Discover the New World, 15th Century
 * I couldn't resist
 * Ian McNelson Burns at the Stake, 1421
 * Is the Western Church dead?
 * If James Had Not Left Whitehall, 1717
 * As a starter, no English Civil War
 * Charles of Hispania's Invasion of Borealia
 * Westminster takes a holiday, 1733
 * If William of Hamburg Had Not Freed the Slaves
 * The results of no Medieval emancipation
 * Germany Looks the Other Way
 * ​The needless First World War
 * Murder at the Fair
 * ​Aaron Tollen captured, 1901
 * The Great War Leveled
 * ​The Weapon that could have ended the war for France in 1910
 * No Angolan Station
 * A French Revolution without Dechamp?
 * The Luck of Henry Brucke
 * ​Three might-have-not-beens on the road to the Presidency, 1938
 * The War of 1928
 * Afognak fails to sway Frederick on the Australian Crisis
 * The General Prophet-President
 * Borealia makes Peace with Germany, 1897