For All the Nails: Robert Sobel Reimagines the American Revolution

For All the Nails: Robert Sobel Reimagines the American Revolution

By M.A. Davis It’s 1972. Amid ratcheting global tension, everyone is worried the next world war will turn nuclear. In North America, tensions are high between the Confederation of North America and the United States of Mexico. Robert Sobel This is the world Robert Sobel (1931-1999) created in his 1973 novel For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga, the most famous counterfactual fiction about the American Revolution. Upon publication,…