American Civil War
Here are some of my favourite American Civil War books.
Bernard Cornwell's American Civil
War Books
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Stars & Stripes Forever
First in a trilogy which tells the story of a
mid-19th century war that never happened. Prince Albert dies of
typhoid before he can rewrite an intemperately-worded dispatch by
Britain's Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, to Abraham Lincoln.
Emotions in Washington and London escalate. Buy
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Stars & Stripes in Peril
Now it's 1863 and perfidious Albion is making
a comeback via the Pacific, establishing a Mexican beachhead and
planning attacks on united America's "soft underbelly"
in the Gulf of Mexico. Gurkha and Sepoy troops build roads while
sweaty white officers express nostalgia for England: "I despair
of ever seeing her blissfully cold and fog-shrouded shores again."
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it from amazon.co.uk |
Guns of the South
One of my favourite of Harry Turtledove's books, Guns of the South, is
set during the American Civil War, though this time the Confederates
are armed with AK-47 Assault Rifles... As might be imagined the
impact of such a deadly weapon on troops armed with Springfield
Rifles is pretty clear cut.
The Confederates, finding the AK-47 a more than
decent replacement for their rifles and smoothbore muskets, easily
win any firefight... Buy
it now from amazon.co.uk
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Guns of the South using the Flintloque rules. |
How Few Remain
This novel makes the assumption that following
the Civil War, America remained divided.
In 1881, a generation after the South won the
Civil War, the peace is shattered. Furious over the annexation of
American territory, the United States declares total war against
the Confederacy. In this second American Civil War the times, stake
and battle lines have changed - and so has history. Buy
it now from amazon.co.uk
Harry has followed this up with a whole series of books, based on this alternate history, covering The Great War, the interwar period, and an alternative Second World War.
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