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Alternate history is an exercise for pondering the crucial turning points of history - events that forever altered the course of civilization and set the stage for the world in which we live today. No longer the "idle parlor game" it was once believed to be, the "counterfactual" has developed into a tool for enhancing the understanding of history, allowing history itself to come alive within the reader's imagination. They can reveal, in startling detail, the essential stakes of confrontation, as well as the potentially abiding consequences. While history is the story of what did happen, the counterfactual is the story of what could have happened.
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