Thread: WW2 fantasy novels help needed please?

Anyone know where I can find stories which mix fantasy with WW2? Many thanks

Inglorious Basterds

The Iron Dream and The Man in The High Castle both are altworld novels stemming from WWII. The Keep is a horror novel with some fantastic elements. There are tons of "surviving Nazi" books, movies, pamphlets, and toilet paper floating about, along the lines of "They Saved Hitler's Brain". I can't think of any that mix traditional faux-medieval high fantasy.
There's Sergeant Rock from the comics and Jack Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown-both had times when fantasy elements were present, as did the appearances of the Red Skull and Baron Zemo in Marvel.
And there's Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which has fantasy elements.

Try reading The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin.

That's not fantasy....

Not a novel, but try watching Goodnight Sweetheart- a man from the 90s discovers he can time travel to the second world war.

Slaughterhouse Five.
But I doubt that's what you're looking for.

It looks like the OP is a tad misleading as the author seems to be looking for High fantasy only.

QUOTE=moderan;1353649]That's not fantasy....[/QUOTE]

Re:The Boys from Brazil

So what is it then? Gospel truth? And of course we know that Hitler is alive and well and living in Bognor Regis?

Yes it is based on truth. Josef Mengele did escape to South America and was hunted along with Adolph Eichman but he didn't manage to create a clone of Hitler for Heavens sake! All the best myths have a basis in truth. That is why they are so frightening.

By the way I forgot to mention you might like to read SS GB by Len Deighton unless of course the Germans really did manage to invade Britain without me noticing whoops sorry that was the Americans. Silly me.

Boys from Brazil is pretty clearly science fiction. In any case, the author of the OP has very clearly indicated that such isn't what is being considered, as in my post before your little argument.
Pray examine the several other threads by the same author. They're all about the same thing.

Spiltting hairs aren't you? Science fiction fantasy as far as I am concerned they are close enough.

... not quite.

I didn't know she wanted High Fantasy. In which case it's a lot harder. Um... when were the Sabriel books set? Not quite High Fantasy though.

Originally Posted by Cressida

Spiltting hairs aren't you? Science fiction fantasy as far as I am concerned they are close enough.

Then you betray a serious lack of genre knowledge. Science Fiction is a subgenre of fantasy but the same rulebook doesn't apply. Fantasy doesn't need the germ of the story to be scientific, for starters. And fantasy, which includes elements of the paranormal, magickal, et al, in turn is divided into many subgenres, one of which is high fantasy, usually the faux-medieval type as illustrated by the works of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.

Originally Posted by Aura

Anyone know where I can find stories which mix fantasy with WW2? Many thanks

To what end?

Originally Posted by moderan

Then you betray a serious lack of genre knowledge. Science Fiction is a subgenre of fantasy but the same rulebook doesn't apply. Fantasy doesn't need the germ of the story to be scientific, for starters. And fantasy, which includes elements of the paranormal, magickal, et al, in turn is divided into many subgenres, one of which is high fantasy, usually the faux-medieval type as illustrated by the works of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.

Genre knowledge? Sounds like you betray a serious lack of something else. Life skills perhaps? Reading is for pleasure, it doesn't matter what 'genre' a book falls into. If you want to be uber clever and show off your 'knowledge' then what on earth are you doing her? Let genre go hang itself. Personally I am a scientist not a literature graduate. You may put your own construction on that.