Both "What If" and "What If II" are excellent books with short essays by top historians covering things in history that could have gone another way. Not too dense or academic.
Wish someone would have covered "What if the Russians Won the Russo-Japanese War" though.
That would have completely changed World History in every conceivable way. I'm sure there would have been no Communist Revolution eventually in Russia, and Japan likely would have never attacked the US.
Yeah that would have been interesting...
in the series I am talking about, Russia never becomes Communist, at least up to the point I am at now....