For Want of a Rivet
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- For Want of a Rivet
- Author
- Karl K Gallagher
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798197954145
- Item weight
- 376 grams
- Series
- Book 76 of 80: Raconteur Press Anthologies
Small decisions. World-altering consequences.
That's the premise behind For Want of a Rivet, an anthology of eleven alternate history military stories that asks one deceptively simple question: what if a single invention, tactical choice, or quiet act of courage had gone differently?
The stories span a century of conflict and a dozen theaters of war. A Royal Navy pilot spots the German fleet and changes the shape of World War One. Air privateers carrying Letters of Marque dogfight over the Western Front while a brash young balloon-buster rewrites the record books. A Japanese naval officer quietly suppresses a breakthrough antenna technology that will shape the Pacific war. German engineers develop a submarine that makes the Atlantic a killing ground. British scientists discover how to bend the enemy's own guidance beams back against them, and a stage magician helps make the resulting deception invisible. An all-Black paratrooper battalion that was supposed to be fighting wildfires instead drops into the Battle of the Bulge. A French Foreign Legion scout finds a Roman tunnel under the most heavily defended line in Italy. A Polish tank crew fights to hold the cork in the bottle as Operation Unthinkable opens. A SOE agent moves through occupied France on a prosthetic leg — and the rivet that keeps it silent may decide the war. Britain and Germany forge an uneasy alliance against Soviet France. Japan defends the Imperial Palace to the last man.These are stories about the human cost of invention, the weight of small advantages, and the soldiers, spies, and engineers who never made the official record.
Eleven contributors. One question. For want of a rivet, the war was lost — or won.
Stories include: ”Wings over Jutland” (William Meinert) · "Ace of Aces" (Karl K. Gallagher) · "Radio Waves" (Joe Salem) · "The Danzig Ghosts" (Michael Patrick Coady) · "The War They Could Not Print" (Ross Hathaway) · "Little Groups of Paratroopers" (Bart Kemper) · "Callis Caecus" (Nick Aalderink) · "Operation Unthinkable" (Samuel A. Mayo) · "Cuthbert's Silence" (D. S. Ligon) · "Axis of Alliance" (G. Scott Huggins) · "The Last Kamikaze" (Robert Miller)
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