Oct 6, 2012

The KK's-Klan?

I found K to be a good read. I`am surprised that there is only one review, and a highly inaccurate one at that! Must have wanted the free $50 voucher, without even going to the trouble of reading the book in the first place! The book is not about a German conquest of the United States. It is set in 1940, against the backdrop of the Ku Klux Klan taking power in the United States, under Charles Lindbergh, who defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1932 Presidential elections. By 1940 the United States is a police-state with more concentration camps than Nazi Germany, with whom it is a sworn ally, against Britain and the Soviet Union. We also meet John Edgar Hoover, who is in charge of the FBIS (Federal Bureau of Internal Security) which is the USA's equivalent of Nazi Germany's SS. In this alternate KKK-run America the Black's have been re-enslaved and the Jew's are Public Enemy No.1, as they were in Hitler's Germany. The plot of the story is basically the story of John Ridgeforth, a British agent, who has been sent into this alternate America to assasinate David Stephenson, the Vice-President. Who is on the verge of shunting President Lindbergh aside, becoming president himself and bringing the United States into the war on Germany's side and crushing Britain between them. Whether he succeeds or not, i`am not about to reveal, for fear of ruining the book for those who may be thinking about buying it. The book is a good read for those with an interest in alternate history and it does go a good way to explaining how a few small changes in 1920's America could have made the scenario of this book into a reality! Which would have seen that we would all be living in a very different world today!


3 comments:

  1. ¿Estamos seguros que no habla del Régimen esta review?

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  2. Hay un cuentito, creo que de Turtledove, sobre EE.UU. con Al Capone de presidente vitalicio.

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