Raconteur Press Anthologies For Want of a Rivet, Book 76, (Paperback)

<p><b>Small decisions. World-altering consequences.</b></p><p>That's the premise behind <i>For Want of a Rivet</i>, 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?</p>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.<p>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.</p><p>Eleven contributors. One question. For want of a rivet, the war was lost - or won.</p><p>Stories include: <b>"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)</b></p>

• Raconteur Press Anthologies For Want of a Rivet, Book 76, (Paperback)
• Author: Karl K Gallagher
• ISBN: 9798197954145
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-20
• Page Count: 278