The Sound of His Horn
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The Sound of His Horn is a 1952 dystopian time travel/alternative history novel by the senior British diplomat John William Wall, written under the pen name of Sarban (author). It relates the story of a prisoner of war transported to a Nazi controlled world 100 years on from World War II. He is literally hunted by a "Reichsforester" (a title Hermann Göring held during the Third Reich). He takes refuge with genetically mutilated "undesirables" — one of the first fictional portrayals of genetic manipulation.
Originally a mass market paperback published in the U.S., UK, Spain and Commonwealth countries, it was republished in hardback by Tartarus Press.
The book's title seems to be taken from an Eighteenth Century song about John Peel (farmer), a famous fox-hunter in his day, and given a sinister meaning not appearing in the original - as under the victorious Nazis, humans are given the role of the fox. The theme of "undesirables" being hunted for "sport" was taken up by Poul Anderson in The Corridors of Time - though in that case unconnected with a Nazi victory, but rather with an opressive regime arising in our far future.
