What if the Axis powers won WWII novels

This month BBC1 will start showing it's adaptation of Len Deighton's novel SS-GB which takes in a Nazi occupied Britain. Amazon Prime currently show The Man in the High Castle based on the Philip K Dick novel  in which the USA divided between Germany and Japan. Here a couple of other examples of this extensive sub genre.


'48 by James Herbert

Faced with defeat Hitler embarks on a scorched Earth tactic by having V1 flying bombs filled with viruses and launches them on his enemies. The novel then takes an approach which will be familiar with anyone who has read Richard Matheson's  novel I Am Legend and it's subsequent film versions. An American airman who has survived the unleashed plague in London finds himself the target of a group of Nazi's who want bring him to their leader so he can have a blood transfusion that might not work.


Dominion by C J Sansom

Britain surrenders to the Nazis after Dunkirk. A Civil Servant is convinced by the British Resistance to help bring out of the country a man with vital information that could bring to an end to the Nazi dominance. The novel features a Quisling puppet government filled with real life figure, one such person being Enoch Powell the political firebrand. The inclusion of Powell led to noted right wing writer Peter Hitchens to call the novel 'a babyish, historical illiterate slur' and demanded Sansom apologise to Powell's family.