About the Book
Harry Turtledove, the multiple-award-winning author of such imaginative
alternate histories as Ruled Britannia and Guns of the South, asks a
startling question: What if Germany won World War II, and the Nazi
regime's rule over most of Europe and North America continued into the
twenty-first century?
Heinrich Gimpel is a respected bureaucrat in Berlin. His wife is a
common Hausfrau, raising his three precious daughters the same way he
was raised – to be loyal, unquestioning citizens of the Third Reich,
obedient to the will of the Fuhrer.
But Heinrich Gimpel has a secret. He is not, in fact, a member of the
Master Race. He has been living a lie to protect his true identity as a
Jew – and he's not alone. Throughout Berlin, Jews survive in secrecy,
maintaining the facade of perfect Aryans, and praying they will not be
discovered.
But a change is coming. And soon they will be forced to choose between
safety and freedom...
