Original sentence: At age 17 he travels to New York City, the largest city of the United States (and yet a small backwater compared to some Confederate cities), in a desperate attempt to gain admittance to a college or university.Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore, is a 1953 novel of alternate history, in which the point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently ends the "War of Southron Independence" on July 4, 1864 in victory.Tensions grow between the two nations up until the 1950's, and people around the world live under constant threat of impending war, with the defenceless United States almost certain to be the battleground.The novel takes place in the impoverished United States of America in the mid-20th century as war looms between the Confederacy and the German Union
Edited sentence: After the release of the original 1953 Ballantine Books edition, the novel was republished in 1965 by Four Square Science Fiction.At age 17 he travels to New York City, the largest city of the United States (and yet a backwater compared to some Confederate cities), in a desperate attempt to gain admittance to a college or university.Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history.Tensions grow between the two nations up until the 1950's, and people around the world live under constant threat of impending war, with the defenSeless United States almost certain to be the battleground.The novel takes place in the impoverished United States in the mid-20th century as war looms between the Confederacy and its rival, the German Union.The point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the "War of Southron Independence" on July 4, 1864 after the surrender of the United States of America