Sansom, the hinge on which history turns is the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in May 1940. What if the second world war had ended not in 1945, but in 1940? In this haunting, vividly imagined novel by C. Part adventure, part espionage, all encompassed by terrific atmosphere and a well-argued it might have been' Marcel Berlins, The Times 'An intriguing thriller set in an alternative Britain under the Nazis cunningly reanimates the post-war years as they might have been. Churchill, in hiding, is leader of a resistance movement, to which the hero of Dominion, David Fitzgerald, a civil servant hiding his Jewishness, belongs. What if, in 1940, Lord Halifax became prime minister instead of Churchill? Britain would have made peace with Hitler, Sansom answers, and by 1952 become a totalitarian state, with Germany, acting as puppet-master rather than invader, setting the scene. Sansom has attempted a difficult format - the what if? novel. Not, however, the year as it is usually remembered.
Sansom takes a break from his Shardlake series to offer Dominion, an absorbing, thoughtful, spy-politico thriller set in the fog-ridden London of 1952. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel. Īt once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. And hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great Smog as David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined.
And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever.Ĭivil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk.
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