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WWII

The Long View: If the July 20 Plot had Succeeded.....

More alternative history from John. Often, the main thrust of his thinking was that the world could have been very much worse than it was, even though it was frequently awful. Hitler may have been a bad leader, but Himmler would have probably been worse.... If the July 20 Plot

The Long View: The World Hitler Never Made

Alternative history, which gets the unusual name allohistory in this book review, has been one of my favorite genres. When done well, you tend to learn a lot of real history by proxy, since good alt history is based on real events. One can never invent stories near so wild

The Long Walk

The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz $16.95; 245 pages A classic adventure story, a tale of endurance and survival, The Long Walk [Amazon link] is the story of a Polish officer who escaped from a Siberian Gulag and walked to India. Whilst doing research for this review, I discovered