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| Author | Robert Sobel |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Alternate history novel |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishers |
Publication date | 1973 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 441 |
| ISBN | 1-85367-281-5 |
| OCLC | 36877367 |
| 973 21 | |
| LC Class | E46 .S62 1997 |
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga is an alternate history novel published in 1973 by the American business historian Robert Sobel.[1] The novel depicts an alternate world where the American Revolution was unsuccessful. Although it is fiction, the novel takes the form of a work of nonfiction, specifically an undergraduate-level history of North America from 1763 to 1971. The fictional history includes a full scholarly apparatus, including a bibliography of 475 works and 860 footnotes citing imaginary books and articles; three appendices listing the leaders of the Confederation of North America, the United States of Mexico, and Kramer Associates; an index; a contemporary map of the alternate North America; and a preface thanking imaginary people for their assistance with the book. The book also includes a critique of itself by Professor Frank Dana, an imaginary Mexican historian with two books listed in the bibliography.
- ^ "Uchronia: For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga". uchronia.net.