![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of such Nazi triumphant novels as Len Deighton’s SS-GB and Robert Harris’s Fatherland will find this a satisfying, if more predictable read. ![]() Sansom’s prose is as assured as ever, but his plotting doesn’t match that of his clever Elizabethan historicals (Dissolution, etc.). David Fitzgerald, a senior official in the Dominions Office, begins to rebel against his country’s leadership after the tragic accidental death of his almost-three-year-old son, and is tapped to aid the resistance in a plan to free a scientist who carries a potentially world-changing secret. CJ Sansom Fri 03.00 EDT A fter writing six historical novels in a row, with my latest novel Dominion I have fulfilled a long-held ambition and written an alternate history novel, a. ![]() While the country is not technically under Nazi occupation, its citizens live in fear of speaking their minds, and Churchill heads a shadowy resistance movement. Later that year, Britain makes peace with Germany. C J Sansoms Dominion takes the reader back no further than an imagined May 1940 to postulate Britain after Hitler has won the. Read more Customers Also Bought Items By S. In the intriguing prologue of Sansom’s solid what-if historical thriller, British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax succeeds Neville Chamberlain as prime minister on May 9, 1940, instead of Winston Churchill. CJ Sansom has clearly done a lot of research and given a lot of thought to how history might have panned out had Lord Halifax rather than Churchill become Prime Minister in 1940 and had Britain gone on. Sansom is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Shardlake series, as well as Winter in Madrid and Dominion. ![]()
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