In 2017, Israeli military historian Martin
van Creveld published a work of fiction entitled Hitler in Hell, in which he speculates about what Adolf Hitler might have thought of things
like the post-WWII development of Western society, the internet, feminism and
the eternal destiny of dogs. In the same book, van Creveld also provides one of
the most perceptive and comprehensive military overviews of WWII I have
ever read.
It’s a clever device: packaging a truthful historic
account in a form sure to be a good deal more widely read than a college
textbook.
Who knows, maybe today’s candidate for
biblical canonicity was written with similar aims in view.