# Departures

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- Book: [Departures](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-turtledove/departures) ([Departures.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-turtledove/departures.md))
- Authors: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-turtledove)
- Publisher: del_rey
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0779-234-1
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

What if history had taken a different path, made a detour, and deviated just a little bit from the road it chose? Here, Harry Turtledove explores such " what ifs" in twenty alternate-history stories ranging from ancient times to the far, far-different future. Persia has conquered Greece; Athens is in ruins. Yet even under Persia's rule, the power of the people can never be completely broken... A werewolf boy tears through Cologne's medieval streets in search of sanctuary from the angry mob. But who will shelter a creature so hated and feared? A student from the far-off future sets off on a field trip to study Genghis Khan - and finds him in the twentieth century? And many more!