SKU: MN0060644 Enthrilling, I wish There were even an European version about the old continent events.I've read this book a number of times and own a copy, I cannot think of another book quite like it. It reads like a historical textbook. The book so accurate in every detail that almost get bored in some paragraph and that gave even more plausibility to the (his)story. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. The great ruling families in Europe were not removed from their thrones - the French revolution would eventually happen but it would be 60 years later and on a much smaller less violent scale, the czars kept power and there was no people's revolution and In this book the American revolution never happened - it started then fizzled out. ").A beautifully rendered alternate history book, written as a text book in a complete "in universe" style (with footnotes, alternative analysis and more of the trappings of academic history) which marvelously, in its plodding this-led-to-this whiggish way, demonstrates how what is history is always contested ("many have crossed the Rubicon, why do we only remember Caesar? Through it, an ever-growing number of authors and fans have postulated the different turns that history might have taken, often because of relatively minor circumstances. I've read many alternate histories, and they are basically novels, where history takes a different line, but the same people appear, and event are similar. Unlike the masses of fictional works set in alternate worlds, and the occasional description of an alternate history for the purposes of overt what-if questions and roleplaying sourcebooks, its format is of a nonfiction book from an alternate world.
Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search hundreds times for their chosen novels like this For Want Of A Nail, but end up in harmful downloads. Hugh Murray. This thing is really well-researched and fun as hell, but almost painfully detailed and actually quite bizarre.For want of a Nail is a largely economic history textbook from another timeline.For want of a Nail is a largely economic history textbook from another timeline.In this book the American revolution never happened - it started then fizzled out. Specifically, it’s written as a non-fiction work about the world it’s set in. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Most writers use this to establish a divergent setting for fictional works, in which characters come to terms with the very different worlds that emerged as a result.Over the past few decades, alternate history has emerged as an increasingly popular sub-genre of science fiction. Specifically, a history book written just like a real history book, but detailing the history of an alternate timeline. The writer, Robert Sobel, is a business historian and he has written a book that (other than the fact that the events it describe never happened), is distinguishable from a real history only by the copyright page and the subtitle "If Burgoyne had Won at Saratoga". Print and download The Want of a Nail sheet music from Camp. It's a history of North America from the middle of the 18th century to the then-present day (1971), but from an alternate timeline where the American Revolution failed. 1853675040 My opinion is pretty easy to sum up - I consider For Want of a Nail to be the greatest work of alternate history that I have ever read, bar none.This is the best alternative history I have ever read.
Including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage; with Observations on Emigration.
Sobel is an economist, and it shows.
Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search hundreds times for their chosen novels like this For Want Of A Nail, but end up in harmful downloads. Hugh Murray. This thing is really well-researched and fun as hell, but almost painfully detailed and actually quite bizarre.For want of a Nail is a largely economic history textbook from another timeline.For want of a Nail is a largely economic history textbook from another timeline.In this book the American revolution never happened - it started then fizzled out. Specifically, it’s written as a non-fiction work about the world it’s set in. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Most writers use this to establish a divergent setting for fictional works, in which characters come to terms with the very different worlds that emerged as a result.Over the past few decades, alternate history has emerged as an increasingly popular sub-genre of science fiction. Specifically, a history book written just like a real history book, but detailing the history of an alternate timeline. The writer, Robert Sobel, is a business historian and he has written a book that (other than the fact that the events it describe never happened), is distinguishable from a real history only by the copyright page and the subtitle "If Burgoyne had Won at Saratoga". Print and download The Want of a Nail sheet music from Camp. It's a history of North America from the middle of the 18th century to the then-present day (1971), but from an alternate timeline where the American Revolution failed. 1853675040 My opinion is pretty easy to sum up - I consider For Want of a Nail to be the greatest work of alternate history that I have ever read, bar none.This is the best alternative history I have ever read.
Including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage; with Observations on Emigration.
Sobel is an economist, and it shows.