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Robert Cowley is an American military historian, who writes on topics in American and European military history ranging from the Civil War through World War II. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing and is the founding editor of the award-winning MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History; Cowley has also written extensively and edited three collections of essays in counterfactual history known as What If?

As part of his research he has traveled the entire length of the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Swiss Border.

He currently lives in New York and Connecticut.

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	What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If #1) by Robert Cowley (Editor), Stephen E. Ambrose, John Keegan 3.66 avg rating — 2,800 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If #2) by Robert Cowley (Editor), James D. Bradley, Cecelia Holland 3.72 avg rating — 1,027 ratings — published 2000 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If, #1-2) 3.82 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 3.60 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No End Save Victory: Perspectives on World War II by Robert Cowley (Editor), Caleb Carr, William Manchester 3.95 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War 4.38 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 3.53 avg rating — 112 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War by Robert Cowley (Editor), Tom Wicker (Contributor), Gideon Rose (Contributor) 4.04 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War 3.67 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reader's Companion to Military History by Robert Cowley (editor), Geoffrey Parker (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What if miliseconds influence centuries?”
― Robert Cowley

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“There is no better way of understanding what did happen in history than to contemplate what very well might have happened.”
― Robert Cowley, What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

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