Dominion Author: C.J. Sansom | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CO7FLE2 | Format: PDF
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C.J. SANSOM REWRITES HISTORY IN A THRILLING NOVEL THAT DARES TO IMAGINE BRITAIN UNDER THE THUMB OF NAZI GERMANY.
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
But Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.
Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance and University friend of Frank's, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. Hard on his heels is Gestapo agent Gunther Hoth, a brilliant, implacable hunter of men, who soon has Frank and David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.
C.J. Sansom's literary thriller
Winter in Madrid earned Sansom comparisons to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks, and Ernest Hemingway. Now, in his first alternative history epic, Sansom doesn't just recreate the past--he reinvents it. In a spellbinding tale of suspense, oppression and poignant love, DOMINION dares to explore how, in moments of crisis, history can turn on the decisions of a few brave men and women--the secrets they choose to keep and the bonds they share.
- File Size: 2629 KB
- Print Length: 632 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0316254916
- Publisher: Mulholland Books (January 28, 2014)
- Sold by: Hachette Book Group
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CO7FLE2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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As C.J.Sansom writes my favourite historical mystery series of all time, in the Shardlake books, I picked this up with a great deal of expectation. Set in 1952 it presents an alternate version of history - asking "what if" England had made a Peace Treaty with Germany after Dunkirk? For David Fitzgerald, a civil servant in the Dominion's office, it meant that he felt defeated and humiliated after serving in Norway. It means armed Special Branch Auxiliaries on the streets to deal with civil unrest, a young Queen uncomfortable and under pressure, Churchill in hiding after leading his followers out of parliament, a Soviet War which has raged for eleven years, Joe Kennedy as US Ambassador, India still fighting for independence, all Jewish citizens forced to wear the Star of David (although being typically English, it is in the form of a lapel badge, discreet racism but still very much there) and a country trying to appease the Germans at every turn.
Much of what is truly brilliant about this novel is the picture Sansom paints of England as it could have been. Drab, dreary, with 'make do and mend' still very much in force. With Europe still very much under the thumb of their German masters, most of Europe's Jewish population deported to the East and Hitler elderly and frail, the infighting for power already beginning amongst those in power. Although some people have found the novel a little long winded (and I do understand why), I think the scene setting was important. We quickly understand the depression the country, and Europe is in. Leningrad starved, Europe's Jewish population disappeared, Churchill underground. Yet, still, some of Europe is still fighting back.
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