Volume 39, Number 21 · December 17, 1992
Good Germans
By Gordon A. Craig
Fatherland
by Robert Harris
Random House, 338 pp., $21.00
Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich
edited by David Clay Large
German Historical Institute/Cambridge University Press, 197 pp., $34.95
For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler
by Victoria Barnett
Oxford University Press, 358 pp., $30.00
German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 1938–1945
by Klemens von Klemperer
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 487 pp., $49.95
A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz
by Giles MacDonogh
Overlook Press, 358 pp., $25.00
In 1931, J. C. Squire edited a volume of essays by various hands called If; or, History Rewritten, which he described as 'a number of speculations by curious minds as to the differences that would have been made had 'events taken another turn.' '[1] The authors included Philip Guedalla, who considered what might have happened 'if the Moors in Spain had won' and wrote a history of the independent state of Granada from 1491 to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; G. K. Chesterton, who sought to make clear the favorable consequences in the long run, for the British Isles and for Europe, of a marriage between Don John of Austria and Mary Queen of Scots; and Hendrik Willem Van Loon, who discussed the complicated politics of the Atlantic seaboard after the Dutch had decided to remain in New Amsterdam.
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