Аннотация
Stars and Stripes Forever
by Harry Harrison
For Nat Sobel — with immense thanks
There is no privileged past… There is an infinitude of Pasts, all equally valid… At each and every instant of Time, however brief you suppose it, the line of events forks like the stem of a tree putting forth twin branches.
—André MauroisA LOOK AT WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
There, in the center of London, his statue sits in Imperial Roman splendor, toga-garbed and carved in finest marble. Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, his memory enshrined in what is probably the ugliest monument in the world; the Albert Memorial.
He was a kind man and much loved by the Queen; he brought her true happiness. But did this Saxon prince, who never lost his thick German accent, ever do anything of any importance? Other than father the future king.
He certainly did. He averted war with the United States.
In 1861 the American Civil War was still in its first...
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