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The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

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Jan 01, 2000
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The idea of writing a story about the Germans winning World War II actually dates back to before the war. In 1937, Murray Constantine—a pseudonym for Katharine Burdekin—published Swastika Night, envisioning Britain under the future dominance of Nazi overlords after Hitler’s victory in a Twenty Years War. The defeat of Germany in the actual war did littl…

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