Infectious alternatives / William H. McNeill -- A good night's sleep can do wonders / Barbara N. Porter -- No glory that was Greece / Victor Davis Hanson -- Conquest denied / Josiah Ober -- Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 / Lewis H. Lapham -- The Dark Ages made lighter / Barry S. Strauss -- The death that saved Europe / Cecelia Holland -- If only it had not been such a wet summer / Theodore K. Rabb -- The immolation of Hernan Cortes / Ross Hassig -- The repulse of the English fireships / Geoffrey Parker -- Unlikely victory / Thomas Fleming -- George Washington's gamble / Ira D. Gruber -- What the fog wrought / David McCullough -- Ruler of the world / Alistair Horne -- Napoleon wins at Waterloo / Caleb Carr -- If the lost order hadn't been lost / James M. McPherson -- A Confederate Cannae and other scenarios / Stephen W. Sears -- Vietnam in America, 1865 / Tom WIcker -- The what ifs of 1914 / Robert Cowley -- Bismarck's empire: Stillborn / James Chace -- Thanks, but no cigar / David Clay Large -- The armistice of desperation / Dennis E. Showalter -- How Hitler could have won the war? John Keegan -- What a taxi driver wrought / WilliamsonMurray -- Triumph of the dictators / David Fromkin -- Our Midway disaster / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- The case of the missing carriers / Elihu Rose -- D Day fails / Stephen E. Ambrose -- The Soviet invasion of Japan / Robert Cowley -- Funeral in Berlin / David Clay Large -- China without tears / Arthur Waldron --A quagmire avoided? /Ted Morgan -- The end / Robert O'Connell.