Talk:Katharine Burdekin
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With this book, she seems to have started what became after 1945 the considerable sub-genre of Alternative History depicting a Nazi-victorious world, including such books as "The Man in the High Castle", "SS-GB", "Fatherland", "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" and the film "It Happened Here" - to cite only a few examples. (Interestingly, no use seems to have been made of such books or films during the war itself as war propaganda, and Burdekin's own book was quite forgotten by then.)
I'm not sure this is a good point / particularly accurate. After all, she did not write it as alternative history. That's like saying I'm writing an alternative history if I start writing about a world where George Bush invades Iran in 2007. It's an (alternative) future, and thus fundamentally futuristic rather than historic in nature.
