Books written by Peter G. Tsouras

Britannia's Fist: From Civil War to World War--An Alternate History

“That reminds me,” he began—for those around Lincoln, those three words—were very familiar “of a barber in Sangamon County. He had just gone to bed, when a stranger came along and said he must be shaved; ...
Assassinations Anthology

Butler, in Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox: A Biography of Lord Halifax (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1991), p.199. 3. Roberts, ibid. 4. See, by way of amplification, R.A. Butler's angry quote on Churchill taking power: 'The good clean ...
A Rainbow of Blood: The Union in Peril--An Alternate History

From the mansion's porch, Captain Hancock and Confederate colonel John Rogers Cooke watched the lanterns on the boats move across the dark water as if they were crosses between water bugs and fireflies. Before his spectacular demise, ...
Cold War Hot: Alternate Decisions of the Cold War

The authors of this book make real such terrifying possibilities as Korea or the 67 War dragging in both superpowers; they predict the consequences of the United States or the Soviet Union attempting radical strategies in Vietnam or in a ...
Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War

With a wealth of newly discovered primary documents, including the diaries of Sharpe’s deputy John C. Babcock, Tsouras sheds significant new light on the evolution of Civil War intelligence reporting.
Gettysburg: An Alternate History

Gettysburg presents some of these possibilities as though they were the reality, and explores the impact they would have on the battle and on the course of the war.
Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years

Lavishly illustrated with dozens of photographs and color paintings, Warlords of Ancient Mexico is essential reading for anyone interested in this tumultuous, endlessly captivating period of Central American history.
Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years

e costly red spoonbill headdress set off with gold, having very many quetzal feathers aring from it, and ... borne upon his back, the skin drum upon a carrying frame, and decorated with gold. 'And they dressed him in red shirt, ...
Scouting for Grant and Meade: The Reminiscences of Judson Knight, Chief of Scouts, Army of the Potomac

Scouting for Grant and Meade is comprised of the popular recollections of Judson Knight, former chief scout of the Army of the Potomac from August 1864 to June 1865, which originally appeared as a serialized column in the armed forces ...
Britannia's Fist: From Civil War to World War—An Alternate History

David Hepburn Milton, Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003), 7. 3. William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 42. 4.
Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War

Parrish, Michael T., Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1992). Waugh, John C., Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians (Ryan Place Publishers, Fort Worth, 1995).
Alexander: Invincible King of Macedonia

Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), who reigned as king of Macedonia for only thirteen years, set a flame of conquest that introduced the dynamism of Hellenism to the Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South Asian worlds.
A Rainbow of Blood: The Union in Peril—An Alternate History

... red and white stripes of the national colors. However, Confederate regiments carried only a single flag—the Stars and Bars on a square field—referred to by their opponents as “those damned red flags of rebellion.”15 Colors were as ...
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios

What if Hitler had not launched his massive gambit and, instead, the Allies had progressed with the operations plan they had prior to the Bulge? These are some of the intriguing scenarios played out by leading authors.
The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations

This volume brings four thousand years of military history to life through the words of more than eight hundred diverse personalities—Napoleon, Machiavelli, Atatürk, Che Guevara, Rommel, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Xenophon, Crazy Horse, ...
The Book of Military Quotations

Four thousand years of military history come to life through the words of more than 800 soldiers, commanders, military theorists, and commentators on war.
Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War

What if Sherman had been stalled outside Atlanta, and Lincoln had lost the crucial 1864 election? Or if Stuart's Cavalry at Gettysburg had arrived in time to give Lee the freedom of operation he lacked in reality?
Hitler triunfante

En este conjunto de trabajos, seleccionados por Peter G. Tsouras, se reconstruyen momentos clave en los que la contienda pudo dar un giro inesperado, basándose en un análisis pormenorizado de los escenarios y contemplando los diversos ...
Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Histories of World War II

This book is a stimulating and entirely plausible insight into how Hitler and his generals might have defeated the Allies, and a convincing sideways look at the Third Reich's bid at world domination in World War II. What would have happened ...
Hitler Triumphant: Alternate Decisions of World War II

Scenarios in this volume include the fall of Malta in 1942 and the likely consequences and the possibility of Halifax making peace with Hitler.