The story is presented as a novel written by Adolf Hitler, called Lord of the Swastika, with an Afterword by one Professor Homer Whipple. Together they comprise The Iron Dream.

There is only one real character in Lord of the Swastika, and he is Feric Jaggar.

As Hitler's alter ego, he bestrides the novel's world like the mighty warrior pictured on The Iron Dream's original paperback cover.

For all that the story is told through his eyes and values, surprisingly little is shown of his inner being. He is almost a hollow man. We do learn that he is a tall, fair, genetically-pure "Trueman," in contrast to the mutants who inhabit large portions of the novel's world. He carries a sense of grievance, however. His parents were exiled from the all-human nation of Heldon for his father's war crimes. So he has grown up in neighboring Borgravia, a...