The World Hitler Never Made

relationship to the Nazi past. The possibility of evil winning, or at least sidestepping defeat, cuts perhaps all too close to the bone today.' Peter Baldwin, University of California, Los Angeles Review of the hardback: 'In this wide-ranging and highly stimulating book, Gavriel Rosenfeld explores the changing nature yet strange persistence of alternate histories of the Nazi past, showing the ways in which Hitler and the Third Reich have occupied Western popular culture long after the regime's demise. In so doing Rosenfeld does more than simply advance a persuasive case for why such mass market myth-making and counterfactual history deserve to be taken more seriously as revealing expressions of popular memory; The World That Hitler Never Made goes a long way towards furnishing a cultural history of some of the most powerful fears and fantasies haunting the Western social imagination from the end of the Second World War to the present.' Paul Betts, University of Sussex Review of the hardback: 'In this groundbreaking study the 'alternative history' of nazism[/national socialism] in western popular culture is described for the first time ... Rosenfeld's book is an eye-opener. The best thing about it is that he doesn't limit himself to the detailed analysis of individual cases, but places them in their political and social context ... It is a broad and erudite selection.' Het Financieele Dagblad Review of the hardback: 'Gavriel Rosenfeld has had the interesting idea of analysing the numerous alternative histories of Hitler. He explores four counterfactual themes - that the Nazis won the Second World War; that Hitler escaped death in 1945 and survived into the post-war era; that he died before 1933; and that the Holocaust was completed, avenged or undone altogether ... The World Hitler Never Made is an impressive work ...'. Financial Times Review of the hardback: '... a shrewd and balanced appraisal.' Evening Standard Review of the hardback: '... an impressive study of counterfactual, alternative histories of World War Two. ... Although deeply scholarly, it is also very readable, as Rosenfeld adopts a light touch in places ... This is a fascinating book ... difficult to put down.' Military Illustrated Review of the hardback: '... his book provides much to think about how we choose to view and consume our history.' The Times Higher