Swastika Night
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780853156406 (0853156409)
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Alternate History,
Gender,
Germany
You really have to bear in mind that the date of origin is 1937 and for that, I am pleasantly surprised that it is not more preachy or propaganda-ish. Of course, there is a lot of inner-European nationalism and racism in the text (to be fair, if there was any time to be a racist nationalist, the 193...
I wish I'd come across this when I read Animal Farm, 1984, or Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, or, I don't know, any dystopia along those lines, as I'd have really enjoyed it. That said, it is a great book. I think it should be on the reading list of any class that's reading the books above. Although it's a h...
his was an interesting reading. A bit different of other books I've read about a hypotetical Nazi victory. Usually the tales are a couple years to decades into the future but this tale takes us to almost 700 hundreads years into the One Thousand Year Kingdom that Hittler envisioned.This book was wri...