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This fascinating third volume in the Britannia's Fist series will
have you pondering how easily history could have been swayed
differently. Peter G. Tsouras presents the third installment in his
Britannia's Fist alternate history series. The winter of 1863 had
rung down a white curtain on the desperate struggle for North
America. The United States and Great Britain had fought each other
to a bitter draw. On both sides of the Atlantic the forges of war
glowed as they poured out the new technologies of war. British and
French aid transformed the ragged Confederate armies and filled
them with new confidence. Both sides strained to be ready for the
coming campaign season. Both sides seek to anticipate each other.
The British strike suddenly at Hooker's strung out army in winter
quarters in upstate New York in a brutal swirling late battle
across frozen fields and streams. Besieged Portland shudders
relentless assault. The French attack Fort Hudson on the
Mississippi. At Lincoln's direction, two great raids are launched
at the United Kingdom itself as Russia enters the war on the side
of the Union to raid the Irish Sea. These are only preliminaries to
the great gathering of modernized armies and ironclad fleets and
with them are deadly submersibles and balloons. Battle rages from
Maine to northern Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, down to steamy
Louisiana. And far away across the sea Dublin stands siege as
Russia cast eyes upon Constantinople. For Americans, blue and gray,
Britons, Irish, Frenchmen, and Russians, the summer of 1864 is the
crescendo battle of destinies and dreams. Skyhorse Publishing, as
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Although separated from the modern reader by a full century, the
First World War continues to generate controversy and interest as
the great event upon which modern history pivoted. Not only did the
war cull the European peoples of some of their best and brightest,
it also led to the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian, German,
Ottoman and Russian empires, and paved the way for the Second World
War. This thought-provoking book explores ten alternate scenarios
in which the course of the war is changed forever. How would the
war have changed had the Germans not attacked France but turned
their main thrust against Russia; had the Greeks joined the allies
at Gallipoli; or had the British severed the communications of the
Ottoman Empire at Alexandretta? What if there was a more decisive
outcome at Jutland; if the alternative plans for the Battle of the
Somme in 1916 had been put into effect; or if the Americans
intervened in 1915, rather 1917? Expertly written by leading
military historians, this is a compelling and credible look at what
might have been.
It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of
Wellington s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Bl cher is set to
face Napoleon Boneparte near Waterloo in present-day Belgium. What
happens next is well known to any student of history: the two
armies of the Seventh Coalition defeated Bonaparte in a battle that
resulted in the end of his reign and of the First French Empire.
But the outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras
demonstrates in this thought-provoking and highly readable
alternate history of the fateful battle. By introducing minor but
realistic adjustments, Tsouras presents a scenario in which the
course of the battle runs quite differently, which in turn sets in
motion new and unexpected possibilities. Cleverly conceived and
expertly executed, this is alternate history at its best. 'Cleverly
conceived and expertly executed, this is alternate history at its
best' - Goodreads.com 'An interesting read and definitely
inspiration for some tabletop skirmishes, after all wargaming is
all about alternate history' - Wargames Illustrated
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