The Man Who Changed History
Reggie Vliet and Sandra Vanderveer want to marry, but Colonel Vanderveer refuses his
permission on the basis that Reggie’s family is not of the same standing as the
long-established Vanderveers. So Reggie sets out to take down the Vanderveers in the
times of Waterloo and the Civil War.
O’Brien was a prolific author who died in action
during World War II at age 26.
“Supposing,” he wondered, “that those two old ducks in the pictures on the walls
hadn’t been famous?”