Hitler’s Peace
Philip Kerr forgot the cardinal rule of alternate history in his book Hitler’s Peace
Good alternate history sticks close to real history. Philip Kerr forgot that cardinal rule in Hitler’s Peace.
The novel starts off promising enough. Kerr references real-world events, including Heinrich Himmler’s peace overtures to the Western Allies and the German plot to kill Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt at the Teheran Conference in 1943.
But he tries to do too much…