Got the book by Robert Conroy and read it in just a few hours. Not bad for an alternate history but there were a few mistakes. I sent him this e-mail about one mistake.
I got 1920: America's Great War as a Christmas present and am almost through it. Very interesting and a fascinating look at what might have been. I did notice one mistake, being a Texan. In Chapter 15, when General Tovey and General Lejuene reach Laredo, you mention they begin to cross the river into Ciudad Juarez. You're off by a few hundred miles. The city across from Laredo is Nuevo Laredo and was founded in 1848. Ciudad Juarez is across the Rio Grande from El Paso, where I live. Otherwise a very good book; keep up the good work.
Got his reply today:
[spoiler]Thanks, and oops.[/spoiler]
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From Nuevo Laredo to Ciudad Juarez is a pretty good distance. How did anybody with access to a map make that mistake?
(FWIW, I did the Vietnamese short course at Ft. Bliss, and I remember times that I took the bus over to Juarez, but can't recall the trip back. Something in the water, maybe?)
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Yeah, the water from that strange bottle with the worm in it. Later in the book, El Paso and Juarez were together. I'm thinking it was an editor mistake possibly.
one can be a Democrat, or one can choose to be an American.
Good acting requires an imagination; reality requires a person not getting lost in their imagination.
"It's better to have a gun if you need it". Felix's opthamologist
I get the feeling Conroy doesn't research the figures and places he inserts into his books to well. Kinda decorates a story with names instead of seeing if the pieces would fit and the dots would connect.
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Rod wrote:Yeah, the water from that strange bottle with the worm in it. Later in the book, El Paso and Juarez were together. I'm thinking it was an editor mistake possibly.
They said if the worm was dead it was safe to drink!
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six." Lindy Cooper Wisdom
