2 new books of interest for resident Aussies , Kiwis and others

Amerigo Vespucci

I'll have to pick 'em up. Even as an American, I'm getting pretty tired of America-centric AH. Hopefully these will be a nice break from that.
 
Electric Monk

Electric Monk

There's also:

The Great Mistakes of Australian History
by David Andrew Roberts

Along with a British political one;

Prime Minister Portillo . . . : And Other Things That Never Happened
by Duncan Brack (Editor), Iain Dale (Editor)


And a couple American political ones that look good:


A Disturbance of Fate: When Robert F. Kennedy Became President
by Mitchell J. Freedman

President Gore and Other Things That Never Happened: A Book of Political Counterfactuals
by Duncan Brack (Editor)
 

BlackMage

I've read What If?, the Australian one. Ranges from interesting (parliamentarians not paid until after Federation, a model Aboriginal state set up in the NT, Arthur Calwell assassinated, Whitlam re-elected in 1977) to fanciful (Tasmania becomes French, Australia's baptism of fire occurs at the Cocos Islands) to just plain silly (Australia becomes independent in 1908, on a policy of retaining White Australia against British opposition, and...becomes Japan's strongest and most steadfast ally, to the extent of adopting Japanese as a second national language? Wha?)

The New Zealand one looks really interesting; I'll buy it if I see it.
 
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