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What if hitler had never been born? In Stephen Fry's most seriously ambitious novel to date, he creates a futuristic fantasy that becomes a thriller with a funny streak. Tackling one of history's darkest episodes, he poses the question: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, no doubt. Michael Young, an earnest young history graduate student, has just finished his dissertation, an exploration into the roots of evil and the early life of Adolf Hitler. When he meets up with an aging German physicist, they concoct an idealistic experiment that involves time travel to prevent the conception of the Führer. It will change the course of history, but will it create a better world? With characteristic brilliance and wit, Fry presents a thought-provoking alternate history that is both trenchant and deeply affecting.

"'Making History' is a novel to be read with a smile and a growing feeling of disappointment as the end looms closer. It is not often that one finishes a 400-page novel wanting more....'Making History' is often very funny, occasionally wise. It is packed with the author's personal enthusiasms and hatreds, the former red-hot and the latter ice-black. I hope that Stephen Fry is encouraged...to continue to provide us with similar entertainments."

Simon Ward, Literary Review, October 1996

"Many of the plot's turns are surprising and effective. Many of the jokes are good, especially if you have no disquiet about the largeness of the material being recycled as gags. "

Eric Korn, Times Literary Supplement, 09/27/26

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