With All Your Might: The Lasting Obsession with WWII Thrillers and Alternate History Stories
By Thom Truelove
June 6, 2016The WWII thriller and alternate history set in the same period are small time machines. If Walter Benjamin’s famous quote is taken into account, “History is written by the victors,” then it is rewritten as we come to terms with the past. Alternate histories concerning World War II appeared almost immediately following the war, and…