If The South Had Won The Civil War, MacKinlay Kantor
If The South Had Won The Civil War, MacKinlay Kantor
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If The South Had Won The Civil War

Author: MacKinlay Kantor, Harry Turtledove

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 2 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2019


Synopsis

Just a touch here and a tweak there . . .

MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War, how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened: to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to the people of the North and South, to the world?

If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in Look Magazine nearly half a century ago. It immediately inspired a deluge of letters and telegrams from astonished readers and became an American classic overnight. Published in book form soon after, Kantor's masterpiece has been unavailable for a decade. Now, this much requested classic is once again available for a new generation of listeners.

It all begins on that fateful afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, 1863, when a deplorable equestrian accident claims the life of General Ulysses S. Grant . . .

About MacKinlay Kantor

MacKinley Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, on February 4, 1904. In 1934, he published Long Remember, which received numerous rave reviews and became his first bestseller. Ten years later, Kantor was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Andersonville. He was one of the most well-known American writers during the 1950's and still remains one of the most respected Civil War authors to date. He died on October 11, 1977.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on September 02, 2019

In the vein of "Fatherland" and "The Man in the High Castle", this is another fascinating vision of what might have been, had the Fates decreed History take a different turn from today's reality. Regardless of whether you accept Kantor's stab at this with respect to a victorious Confederacy, it's a......more

Goodreads review by Werner on February 10, 2017

My interest in finally reviewing this long-ago read, which was my first introduction to the whole idea of alternate history, was sparked by the fact that I'm currently reading another, though very different, fictional scenario in which the South wins the Civil War, The Guns of the South by Harry Tur......more

Goodreads review by TK421 on January 13, 2012

One topic I really love reading about is the Civil War. Besides the obvious implications this event had on American history, the Civil War is a bastion of "what if" type of thinking. What if England or France had entered the war? What if the South had won at Gettysburg? What if this or that general/of......more

Goodreads review by Jim on March 25, 2023

5 stars because this is the book that got me interested in reading alternate history. I read it in elementary school and then recently reread it!......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on November 13, 2009

I was torn betwee 3 and 4 stars for this one but went with the four for the history interest. I read this back in the mid 1960s while I was in school, a history teacher recommended it. Basicly you get a picture that with a few odd changes in history (Grant killed in an accident etc.) things could hav......more