1066
by Robert Silverberg
writing as Franklin Hamilton*
Form: Non-fiction
Year: 1964
ID: 2
Publication history:
- 1964: 1066, Dial Hard cover book, 212 pp.
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writing as Franklin Hamilton*
Form: Non-fiction
Year: 1964
ID: 2
[None on record]
Comments:
Interestingly enough, the final chapter of this book is called
and offers a bit of alternate-history speculation. Silverberg develops a number of possibilities, picturing a world in which England remained isolationist and never went abroad to found colonies. North America would almost certainly have become a French colony, though it may have attained at least some measure of independance. It's an interesting fancy, and worth considering, since there are so many ways in which William's success rested on good luck and timing rather than strength or skill.