SS-GB

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name = SS-GB
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image_caption = First Edition Hardcover
author = Len Deighton
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country = flagicon|UK United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = alternate history
publisher = Jonathan Cape
release_date = 24 August 1978
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media_type = Hardcover
pages = 368
isbn = ISBN 978-0224016063
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"SS-GB" is an alternate history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom fictionally conquered and occupied by Germany during World War II. The novel's name, "SS-GB", refers to the branch of the Nazi SS that controls Britain, the SS-Great Britain branch.

Plot summary

It is November 1941, nine months after the British surrender. Douglas Archer is a British homicide detective assigned to Scotland Yard. He is torn between loyalty to his country and his professional commitment to law enforcement. He begins investigating what seems to be a typical murder case in London, but which finally involves him in the highest levels of the Nazi occupation government.

Literary significance & criticism

"SS-GB" was praised by some critics reviewing alternate history books about World War II. Robert Harris's later "Fatherland" is often compared to it.Fact|date=February 2007

References in other works

Gavriel David Rosenfeld, a lecturer in history at the University of California, Los Angeles, cited to "SS-GB" in his novel "The World Hitler Never Made". [cite book |title=The World Hitler Never Made |last= Rosenfeld|first=Gavriel |authorlink=Gavriel David Rosenfeld |coauthors= |year=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location= |isbn=0521847060 |pages=524 |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521847060&ss=ind]

ee also

*1945 (novel)
*Collaborator (novel)
*Fatherland (novel)
*Farthing (novel)
*In the Presence of Mine Enemies
*It Happened Here
*Making History (novel)
*The Man in the High Castle
*The Plot Against America
*The Sound of His Horn
*Swastika Night
*The Ultimate Solution

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