I was really disappointed by this book. I had looked forward to it for sometime after it had been highly recommended to me base on how much I loved The Probability Broach a story about a new dimension created by one small change during the revolutionary war. (Though it takes most of the story to learn that's what the world is).

This is somewhat similar. I can see why the recommendation, but there wasn't much of a story there. It was really short, just over 100 pages. There weren't really any characters to speak of. The first half of the book particularly where really written for civil war buffs. I have no clue what is the same and what is different. Until the south wins the battle of Gettysburg.

Kantor argues that with such a victory the north would just give up, and they chose to stop fighting. Not long after economic windfall is greater than ever because of the fewer lives lost. Texas leaves the CSA because they can. But World Wars show that the three nations need each other. But the race issue is a non-issue because as long as its not being brought upon them by oppressors, they get rid of slavery on there own by 1870 and full rights by 1950s.

Lots of feel good southern pride from around the time of the American civil rights movement when rivisionist history of the civil war was quite popular.