ddickinson: Thank you for the response, I was just curios why the Ubisoft trailer would use that wording, and I was curious if that was how games and movies were portraying it these days. Some of the reasons are correct, Most of Europe was against all the new religions and cults that were appearing (many settlers had fled Europe to practice their own religions). Some day if you wanted we could discuss this more over chat, as I find it's a touchy subject and can just lead to debates and that would not be good in the conversation thread, they can also get quite heated, which is not what I would want. I am not too up to date on the US Civil War, but it was partly due to the issue of slaves, so it makes sense to discuss slaves then.
Are the books you reading based around facts, or are they just fiction set in the period?
(I will also stop doing these long posts that can be seen as controversial, like my earlier discussion with adaliabooks, as it keeps killing the thread. :-))
I guess it must be for dramatic purposes. It sure makes it sound more fascinating and patriotic :-)
I should have worded that comment about slavery and the Civil War differently... To put it a better way, we only talk about the "easy" explanations, and not enough about the accurate ones... Of course slavery was a big part of our civil war, but we are usually taught that it is the
only part... that President Lincoln sent an army to the south for the purpose of freeing the slaves, when he said once that "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it"...
anyway... these are certainly fun conversations, but I agree, best to not let them get too controversial so we don't offend anyone.
The books are based around facts. All the characters and events are as close to accurate as the writer could make them. The fictional part is mostly what the characters are thinking about, and what they say. The author does a great job of making these historical figures relatable, so it feels like you are seeing through that figure's eyes... Historical, but dramatic :-)
The thing that I really like about the author's style (and his father's, who wrote the first book) is that it shows the point of view from multiple people on both sides of the conflicts. It is never one-sided.
