The real and imaginary realities of the 20th century, times, events and historical characters are intricately intertwined in Michael Moorcock's trilogy “Nomads of Time”. British Colonel Oswald Bastable, together with Chinese General Shen Hao, terrorist Rudi Dutschke and former State Duma Speaker Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, drop an atomic bomb from an airship on Hiroshima. Ronald Reagan with a water pistol commands a detachment of American scouts, a horde of African followers of the teachings of Gandhi led by Michael Jackson conquer the United States of America, and the leader of the Ukrainian rebels, brigade commander Makhno, fights against the personality cult of the Steel Tsar - Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili.