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David Wright wrote: > A Patron is describing a book that seems very much like Philip K > Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" to me, but they seem convinced > that this is not the book. Perhaps one of you geniuses can help me > out. > Alternative History from the 70's or before, Old Man stumbles > onto Alternative world, Nazis Won, Japan protecting Christians that > the Reich wants to execute, seems to recall book cover with Statue of > Liberty and Swastikas (I've done book cover searches on the Dick book, > and find things very close to this...) PLUS - they have 'It Did Happen > Here' in their head (possible confusion with 1966 movie 'It Happened > Here.') > So you see my dilemma. I'd swear that it is "The Man in the High > Castle" they're fixated on, but they disagree. Before I try to > establish just what drugs did to their brain in the past 30 years, > does anyone recall a book that fits? > David Wright > Seattle Public Library Might be the 1952 novel "The Sound of His Horn" by Sarban, which was the nom de plume of John W. Wall (1910-1989). But it's possible your patron is thinking not of the 1966 Kevin Brownlow film "It Happened Here" [http://shop.store.yahoo.com/ihf/r552.html], but rather of the book "How It Happened Here," also by Kevin Brownlow [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0436098644/theoffichomepa08]. -- Best, James Stevens-Arce -- SOULSAVER [from Harcourt] / Winner of Europe's UPC Award / Best First Novel 2000 - Denver Rocky Mountain News / Tops of 2000 - San Francisco Chronicle / New and Notable & Best First Novel - Locus Magazine / Recommended - New York Review of Books' Readers' Catalog -- Test drive it at: http://www.stevens-arce.com/SampleChaps.html