The Amazon description does tell the reader the tones of fascism in the hypothetical story are steeped in "ironic imagery and over-the-top rhetoric". Which I feel it has very much lived up to that premise so far. I just wasn't expecting it to be that blatantly obvious, and was expecting more... connections between tropes in the "modern" fantasy genre (modern is in quotes because this novel was released in 1972) and its fascist undertones, rather than just "what if Hitler wrote a fascist fantasy novel." You know, something more like the older versions of D&D or/and Warhammer. Maybe I'm expecting something different, because I imagine he wouldn't have the most subtle writing style anyway, and that the author is accounting for that.