In four pieces - Al Haaq, Driving Der Fuhrer, Rudi and Pax Germanica - Carl Tighe takes a long cool look at post-war Europe. He questions the Allied victory over Hitler and the smug assumptions of post-war western democracy. These variations on a theme in three short stories and an article combine a freewheeling imagination and spiky cyncicism. As certainty slips away prepare to be entertained and intrigued....