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The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by American author Norman Spinrad.The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story.On the surface, the novel presents a post-apocalyptic adventure tale entitled Lord of the Swastika, written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler shortly before his death in 1953.
The final operations of the Western Allied armies in Germany between 19 April and 7 May 1945. In the six months following the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944, the American, British, and French armies advanced to the Rhine and seemed poised to strike into the heart of Germany, while the Soviet Red Army, advancing from the east through Poland, reached the Oder.
View from Kehlsteinhaus. Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany.Located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-east of Munich, close to the border with Austria, it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain residence, the Berghof, and of the mountaintop Kehlsteinhaus, popularly known in the English-speaking world ...
Hitler's Thirty Days to Power is a 1996 history book by historian and Yale professor Henry Ashby Turner.The book covers political events in Germany during the month of January 1933, which culminated in the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor on January 30.
The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European (German title Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers) is the memoir [1] [2] [3] of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. [4] It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire. [5]
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Swastika Night is a futuristic novel by British writer Katharine Burdekin, writing under the pseudonym Murray Constantine.First published in 1937 and subsequently as a Left Book Club selection in 1940, the novel depicts a world where Adolf Hitler's claim that Nazism would create a "Thousand Year Reich" is realised.
The majority of the story is told through flashbacks, as Helmuth Hübener, charged with treason, waits in a Berlin prison for his execution.Starting with his memories as a young boy, Helmuth recounts his childhood growing up in Nazi Germany with his mother Mutti (German for "Mom"), grandparents, two brothers, his best friends Rudi and Karl, and his future stepfather Hugo, a Nazi soldier.