Severed Wing A Novel Author:Martin J. Gidron, Martin Gildron Typically, alternate history/universe novels offer a relatively happy version of history: what if Babbage had been able to perfect his difference engine and make computers readily available in Victorian England? What if Texas had declared itself a nation under Sam Houston? This novel, too, offers such a delightful excursionmomentarily. For... more » the novels premisethat World War I ended much sooner, thereby avoiding the harsh Versailles Treaty, which thereby avoided the rise of Nazi Germany and its Holocaustis fated to be only a temporary vision in young Janusz Spiegelmans mind. The world Janusz inhabits is one that might have been, had millions of Jews not perished, one that would have been filled with their progeny. But this world is disappearing; it is daily returning to the grim reality of the Holocaust. In grim proof, every day in Januszs life sees more of his Jewish co-workers, friends, and acquaintances disappear; more Jewish establishments disappearvanish completely. As we share Januszs harrowing, surreal experience, we are once more reminded of the vastness of the Holocaust.« less