# SS-GB **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578 "2008-12-24T18:17:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/1 "2008-12-24T18:17:39Z")
Based upon some mentioned here, I am almost finished reading SS-GB by Len Deighton. Any suggestions for book along this vein? Fiction set in a WWIi Nazi Society. Not nessesarily alt-hist, but I do like those. I just ordered Fatherland - Robert Harris. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/2 "2008-12-24T18:49:22Z")
The Children’s War by JN Stroyar Google it for a description. ---
**Author:** ![History\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b19c9b/32.png) [@History\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Geek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/3 "2008-12-24T18:58:05Z")
I picked up a copy of _SS GB_ after reading that thread too. I’m almost through it, and have enjoyed it quite a bit. Thanks to whoever made that suggestion. _Fatherland_ is good too - I read it a few years back. I can’t think of any other thriller/mystery-type post-Nazi victory books. I keep wanting to say _The Odessa File_, but that just has regular non-victorious Nazis. Good book though. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/4 "2009-04-09T02:59:33Z")
_The Man in the High Castle_ by Philip K. Dick, set in the early 1960s, following an Axis victory in WW2. The departure point seems to be the assassination of FDR just before he took office in 1933 (IRL, the mayor of Chicago was killed but FDR survived the attempt). The Japanese and the Germans split the U.S. down the middle. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/5 "2009-04-09T03:22:36Z")
You might try to find a copy of [“The Sound of His Horn”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_His_Horn). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/6 "2009-04-09T03:50:49Z")
[In the Presence of Mine Enemies](http://www.amazon.com/Presence-Mine-Enemies-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0451459598/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239248570&sr=1-1) Wiki [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Presence_of_Mine_Enemies) ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/7 "2009-04-09T12:27:07Z")
_Making History_ by Stephen Fry. Not a WWII Nazi society, but what would happen if the Nazis won. It’s alternate history, and very clever. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/8 "2009-04-09T13:21:03Z")
I’ve read mixed reviews of the recent _Farthing_ by Jo Walton, an English country-house murder mystery set during the Nazi occupation: [http://www.amazon.com/Farthing-Jo-Walton/dp/076535280X/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239283124&sr=1-1](http://www.amazon.com/Farthing-Jo-Walton/dp/076535280X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239283124&sr=1-1) The sequels are _Ha’penny_ and _Half a Crown_. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/9 "2009-04-09T16:55:12Z")
How about a novella set in WWII that’s continuing long after it ended in our world? Sort of science fiction/fantasy. David Brin’s [Thor Meets Captain America](http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.htm). The link goes to the story itself. It’s included in _Hitler Victorious_–an anthology compiled by Greg Benford & Martin Greenberg. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/10 "2009-04-09T23:51:23Z")
Not quite what the OP is looking for, but I just heard “[Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky](http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/scholes_11_07/)” by Ken Scholes in a podcast today, and I was blown away. A very alternate Hitler, indeed! (Link is the the story on line.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-gb/478578/11 "2009-04-10T01:43:02Z")
_The Divide_ by William Overgard is light SF but enjoyable.