Quite brilliant, inspiring for the layman and an enviable tour de force for the informed reader... A wonderful book... lucid, exciting and easy to read (Literary Review )
Ferguson constructs an entire scenario starting with Charles I's defeat of the Covenanters, running through three revolutions that did not happen and climaxing with the collapse of the West, ruled by an Anglo-American empire, in the face of a mighty transcontinental, tsarist Russian imperium... A welcome, optimistic assault on an intellectual heresy (Sunday Times )
A talented and imaginative team who tackle with counterfactual verve a series of turning points (Daily Telegraph )
