So did I worry that we would see more reworking of some of Richards’s previous? Yes indeed, but after 16 books I’ve read, that’s not surprising. Yet when it turned out to be Nazi Germany, I never once thought that he would fall into the plentiful traps of rehashing tropes that appear so often in these alternate history stories. Yes, some material we’ve seen before and, yes, the broad outline of the story was not unusual for Richards, yet it was tautly woven and neatly tied-up. A brilliant addition.