Swastika Night Author:Katharine Burdekin Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, this novel projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. They are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, ... more »and art. Not even the memory of culture remains. The plot centers on a "misfit" who asks, as readers must, "How could this have happened?"« less