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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
leelee_draws_pictures's review against another edition
1.0
I had envisioned this to be like an alternate-history novel in the same vein as, for example, Man in the High Castle. It wasn't like that at all, which isn't really its fault. I just went in with the wrong expectations.
jimmyjamesnickels's review against another edition
1.0
This book calls to mind a scene from an episode of The Office: During Jim and Pam's wedding, Dwight Schrute is seated at the children's table and proceeds to tell the children a story about the strong, handsome office salesman pitted against the ugly, weak butt kissing regional manager. That's basically what this book is. CSA Fan fiction, as written by Dwight Schrute.
It's an older book and it's of the genre of books that definitely glorifies the Confederacy with a complete and utter tone deafness. And I just don't know how a book such as this is supposed to be received anymore...with a hat tip toward the times during which it was written (published for the first time in 1961), hands gently wrung because folks back then just didn't know no better? I don't know if I'm comfortable with that, honestly.
I found it simplistic, uncomfortable bordering on icky wish fulfillment. A revisionist Confederate wet dream. The brave, noble, honorable CSA topples the sniveling, weak, imperialistic Yankee scourge. And of course, this being the Neo-Confederate view, basically dismissing the horrors of slavery and racism with a hand wave as being unimportant side detail of the main issue of states rights.
It's an older book and it's of the genre of books that definitely glorifies the Confederacy with a complete and utter tone deafness. And I just don't know how a book such as this is supposed to be received anymore...with a hat tip toward the times during which it was written (published for the first time in 1961), hands gently wrung because folks back then just didn't know no better? I don't know if I'm comfortable with that, honestly.
I found it simplistic, uncomfortable bordering on icky wish fulfillment. A revisionist Confederate wet dream. The brave, noble, honorable CSA topples the sniveling, weak, imperialistic Yankee scourge. And of course, this being the Neo-Confederate view, basically dismissing the horrors of slavery and racism with a hand wave as being unimportant side detail of the main issue of states rights.
books10's review against another edition
3.0
I’ve have asked myself what would things have been like “if the South had won the Civil War..”. This book proposed that two events in 1863, could have led to that happening. I think that someone who really knows the Civil War well would find this book fascinating. I’m not someone who knows more than the basics that were learned in school. So it’s a little harder to tell all the parts that are fiction, and all the parts that are true. The author covers this at the very end though. Overall, something interesting to think about, how a small change in outcome here or there could have changed the courses of history.