Thread: What If the South Had Airpower?--New Historical Novel
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Old 08-01-2010, 08:34 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by KarlKlein View Post
I believe this was an announcement for a new book not a forum for some ignorant Yankee ranting about something he knows nothing about.
And then there's the fact that even if the Confederacy had had airpower, they lacked the industry and the population to fully exploit it. Also, a lot of their manpower was capital, not labor, and this did not help any.

BTW, did you know that in the late 1850's there was a bubble in the price of slaves? If the ACW had not happened then the market would have collapsed by the mid 1860's. Who knows what would have happened.

P.S. Harry Harrison also wrote a time traveler changes the ACW book: A Rebel in Time. It's pretty good.
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