Making History
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Stephen Fry
This “terrific” novel of alternate history asks: What if Hitler had never been born? (The Washington Post). Michael Young is a graduate student at Cambridge who is completing his dissertation on the early life of Adolf Hitler. Leo Zuckermann is an aging German physicist haunted by the Holocaust. Together, they idealistically embark on an experiment to change the course of history. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours—but in most ways even worse.
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Author
Stephen Fry
Pages
464
Publisher
Soho Press
Published Date
2014-12-30
ISBN
1616955260 9781616955267
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"A spine tingling alternate history thriller, based on that hoary ethical cliche: what if you could go back in time and murder Hitler? Would it make any difference? Michael Young, a Cambridge graduate student who has just completed his dissertation on Hitler's childhood, unexpectedly finds out when he meets a mysterious German physicist named Zukermann. Together, they manage to retro-engineer the Hitler family history to forestall young Adolf's birth...while setting in motion a disastrous chain of consequences resulting in an America that no self confident, liberal gay intellectual could live in. Will Michael and Zukermann be able to reverse the damage they've caused...or will they make things still worse?"
Lesley Williams