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The first book I read this summer was the Man in the High Castle is a book written by Phillip Dicks. The book is a novel based of the paradox that the result of World War 2 was not a ally victory. Before I say what is different due to the war let me elaborate on the idea of the War won by the Japanese and Germans. In this altered history the United States president Franklin Roosevelt is assassinated in his first term as president. Due to FDR having been killed and his lack of leadership after his death the war would be finished by 1947 and the Axis are victorious. The actual story that is the main premise of the book takes place in 1962. The story takes place in America, which is now split in half. One half residing west of the rocky mountains, which is under Japanese control, and the east therefore …show more content…

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