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EdT's early timelines are great examples of marrying the faux-history textbooks with strong central characters.
It helps, frankly, that EdT is a wittier and more able writer than most authors who try the scrapbook approach. And the peril is that you can slip into Great Man history quite easily- Randolph Churchill and Oswald Mosley were fascinating figures, but I doubt either of them could have changed the world so seismically as those stories suggest. That might be unfair to hold against a work of fiction, of course.
Still, Fight and Be Right especially is a brilliant example of how you can do the globe-spanning history that chases tangents and odd details, so long as there's a really clear through line for the main plot.
It helps, frankly, that EdT is a wittier and more able writer than most authors who try the scrapbook approach. And the peril is that you can slip into Great Man history quite easily- Randolph Churchill and Oswald Mosley were fascinating figures, but I doubt either of them could have changed the world so seismically as those stories suggest. That might be unfair to hold against a work of fiction, of course.
Still, Fight and Be Right especially is a brilliant example of how you can do the globe-spanning history that chases tangents and odd details, so long as there's a really clear through line for the main plot.