The Shiloh Project

TitleThe Shiloh Project
Year for Search1981
AuthorsPoyer, David C[harles](b. 1949)
Date Published1981
PublisherAvon
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Alternative history in which the Confederacy won the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, but all that was achieved was a century-long standoff between the North and the South, which is a police state. In the novel, the North has developed the atomic bomb, and it dropped it on Japan. The South is desperate to get its own, and, at the end of the novel, uses it.

Holding Institutions

DLC

Author Note

The author (b. 1949), who is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and retired from the Navy with the rank of Captain, is best-known for his many novels of the sea.

Full Text

1981 Poyer, David C[harles] (b. 1949). The Shiloh Project. New York: Avon. DLC

Alternative history in which the Confederacy won the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, but all that was achieved was a century-long standoff between the North and the South, which is a police state. In the novel, the North has developed the atomic bomb, and it dropped it on Japan. The South is desperate to get its own, and, at the end of the novel, uses it. The author, who is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and retired from the Navy with the rank of Captain, is best-known for his many novels of the sea.