{"product_id":"for-want-of-a-rivet-raconteur-press-anthologies","title":"For Want of a Rivet (Raconteur Press Anthologies)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmall decisions. World-altering consequences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat's the premise behind \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Want of a Rivet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an anthology of eleven alternate history military stories that asks one deceptively simple question: what if a single invention, tactical choice, or quiet act of courage had gone differently?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe stories span a century of conflict and a dozen theaters of war. A Royal Navy pilot spots the German fleet and changes the shape of World War One. Air privateers carrying Letters of Marque dogfight over the Western Front while a brash young balloon-buster rewrites the record books. A Japanese naval officer quietly suppresses a breakthrough antenna technology that will shape the Pacific war. German engineers develop a submarine that makes the Atlantic a killing ground. British scientists discover how to bend the enemy's own guidance beams back against them, and a stage magician helps make the resulting deception invisible. An all-Black paratrooper battalion that was supposed to be fighting wildfires instead drops into the Battle of the Bulge. A French Foreign Legion scout finds a Roman tunnel under the most heavily defended line in Italy. A Polish tank crew fights to hold the cork in the bottle as Operation Unthinkable opens. A SOE agent moves through occupied France on a prosthetic leg — and the rivet that keeps it silent may decide the war. Britain and Germany forge an uneasy alliance against Soviet France. Japan defends the Imperial Palace to the last man.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are stories about the human cost of invention, the weight of small advantages, and the soldiers, spies, and engineers who never made the official record.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEleven contributors. One question. For want of a rivet, the war was lost — or won.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStories include: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e”Wings over Jutland” (William Meinert) · \"Ace of Aces\" (Karl K. Gallagher) · \"Radio Waves\" (Joe Salem) · \"The Danzig Ghosts\" (Michael Patrick Coady) · \"The War They Could Not Print\" (Ross Hathaway) · \"Little Groups of Paratroopers\" (Bart Kemper) · \"Callis Caecus\" (Nick Aalderink) · \"Operation Unthinkable\" (Samuel A. Mayo) · \"Cuthbert's Silence\" (D. S. Ligon) · \"Axis of Alliance\" (G. Scott Huggins) · \"The Last Kamikaze\" (Robert Miller)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913319866559,"sku":"e4909712-e5ca-4ff3-b845-6d1b55965694","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/01e5c084392071360d6138f912056cb7.jpg?v=1785045195","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/for-want-of-a-rivet-raconteur-press-anthologies","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}