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The Fourth Reich
by Gavriel D Rosenfeld
(Cambridge University Press, £22)
WITH fake news and alternative facts now ruling much of the airwaves, a historical account of “counter-factual possibilities” may not appear as fanciful as it would have done in the past.
That’s demonstrated in this book by Gavriel Rosenfeld’s, a survey of the various yet so far unsuccessful attempts to launch a Fourth Reich to succeed or replace Hitler’s short-lived failure with his 1,000 year Third Reich.
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