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Making history : a novel / Stephen Fry.
LIBRA - Special PR6056.R88 M34 1997b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fry, Stephen, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Fiction.
- Hitler, Adolf.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
- Germany.
- History.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Adventure fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 381 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Advance Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 1998.
- Summary:
- A history student travels back in time to prevent Hitler's birth by dropping an infertility pill into his father's beer. The scheme backfires when a more intelligent dictator comes to power, conquering more territory and developing the atom bomb ahead of the U.S. The student, Michael Young, gets back into his time machine to allow Hitler to be born after all. By the author of The Hippopotamus.
- Notes:
- "This work was originally published in Great Britain by Hutchinson, a division of Random House UK, London, in 1996"--Title page verso.
- Book description on initial page.
- OCLC:
- 939529913
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