and Germany he has conceived and produced a provocative and deeply insightful book. The World Hitler Never Made is a strikingly original and imaginative cultural history that reveals a great deal ...

One recent controversy involved blockbuster game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, set in an alternate history in which Nazi Germany won World War Two - and in which Hitler is still alive.

It's been a big year for Germany's far-right party, the Alternative for Germany party ... But James Hawes, the author of The Shortest History of Germany, traces the east-west divide back much ...