SO LAST NIGHT I FINISHED HARRY TURTLEDOVE’S The Man With the Iron Heart. it’s an alt-history story in which Reinhard Heydrich survived and led a post-VE-day insurgency in Germany, and a pretty obvious allegory for Iraq. I won’t give away the ending, but I’m happy to say that things have gone a lot better in Iraq than they do in Turtledove’s Germany. Like just about all Turtledove, it’s a good read, but it’s made more enjoyable by realizing that our outcome has been superior.