"This generation's most fully realized alternative history"*

Praise for Democracy's Missing Arsenal, Vol. 1:

 

Kirkus Reviews:  ...King and Bredehoft expertly plot the effects of the South's victory in the Civil War. **** A flawless blending of actual and potential events, aided by an engaging narrator.  Selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Top 100 Indie Books of 2013.

 

“Epic stuff. HBO or Showtime kind of stuff. Part history, part chutzpah. The audacious theme of this unsettling book – larger than the domino effect of a Southern victory in the Civil War – is the absurdity of seeing anything as inevitable, least of all the manifest destiny of the United States. Bredehoft and King are confident and audacious storytellers, who know way too much about history to be dismissed as mere fantasists. In their hands ‘what might have been’ becomes fascinating, terrifying and all-too-plausibly real.” –Chris Keyser, President, Writers Guild of America West, Golden-Globe-Award Winning writer and producer of “Party of Five” and “Sisters” 

 

“The most provocative page-turner you will read all year. In this alternative history, read how Lee’s victory at Gettysburg led to the South’s conquest of Cuba, the World War of 1898 and the Royal Navy’s bombardment of New York. These two are masters of history and of storytelling.” –Professor Jonathan Wiener, Duke University, past president of the Society for Risk Analysis and author of Risk vs. Risk and The Reality of Precaution 

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Praise for Democracy's Missing Arsenal, Vol. 2:

A recommended book:  "[A] convincing semifictional world," where "everything stems from a single 'point of divergence'" - Kirkus Reviews

"King and Bredehoft have done it again; in this fascinating second volume of their planned trilogy, they explore how the early part of the twentieth century would have looked if the South had won the Civil War.  Dancing on the edge of history and fiction,they tell an engaging if appalling tale of politics, diplomacy, slavery, and world war." -- Walter Stahr, author of John Jayand Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

 

"Counterfactual history is back.  'The Man in the High Castle' and C.J. Sansom were mere warm-up acts for King and Bredehoft.  In an historically rich narrative they imagine an early twentieth century following a victory of the Confederate States in the nineteenth.  The book invites us to contemplate other imponderables: what if Marie Le Pen became President of France, or Donald Trump became President of the United States?" --Steven Pincus, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale, and author of1688: The First Modern Revolution

 

"A rollicking military, political and social alternative history carried out with a Churchillian flair, DMA offers the reader the chilling possibility that a Confederate victory could have given anew life to slavery, not only in North America, but throughout the world.  King and Bredehoft remind us that things could be much worse if just one huge event--the American Civil War--had ended differently." -- Roger Ransom, Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor of History,University of California-Riverside, and author of The Confederate State of America: What Might Have Been