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Badsey, Stephen - ‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism in Counterfactual History

Keywords:

counterfactual history | exceptionalism | First World War | Uchronia

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Legacy | Literature | General | Politics | Experience of combat

Abstract:

While any historical event or development has unique characteristics, historians use the term ‘exceptionalism’ to identify those which appear to have no equivalent. The counterfactual history website Uchronia lists in its database some 2,600 books, stories and articles of counterfactu…