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Title: insult to history
Review: This is not a good book. The characters are wooden, the plot contrived, and the writing is simplistic and dull. Moreover, the idea that the great events of history could somehow be changed by improbable schemes supposedly hatched by Hitler and Stalin (with cameos form pet demons Himmler and Beria) is really insulting. The hero is a cartoon whose arrogance and self-pity really grate after a while. Yet somehow astute politicians such as FDR and Churchill defer to his judgement?Kerr does a good job of providing period versimilitude - not least in that his characters seem to smoke before and after every word, thought, and sex act. He pays attention to brands and models of stuff and that's why I gave it a 2.
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