Nor did the British soldiers who had died in the endless conflicts in India, and now Africa, that had begun since the 1940 Peace Treaty.

But David, who had served in Norway, and the other survivors of that defeated, humiliated army-whose retreat from Europe had been followed so quickly by Britain's surrender-did not have a place at the Remembrance Day ceremonies. David was himself a veteran of the second war, the brief 1939–40 conflict that people called the Dunkirk campaign or the Jews' war, according to political taste. There were relatively few older men-most of the Great War veterans, like Sarah's father, would be in central London already, preparing for the march past the Cenotaph. Everyone seemed sad and somber, befitting the day. David ushered Sarah and her mother into a carriage they found two empty wooden benches and sat facing each other.Īs the Tube rattled out of Kenton Station David looked around him. Scarves and handbags were also black, or muted brown, the only color the bright red poppies everyone wore in their buttonholes. It was a cold morning and the men and women all wore black winter coats. Read ExcerptĪlmost all the passengers on the Tube to Victoria were, like David and his family, on their way to the Remembrance Sunday parade. 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. Now, in his first alternative history epic, Sansom doesn’t just recreate the past - he reinvents it. Sansom’s literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned Sansom comparisons to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks, and Ernest Hemingway. 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.Ĭ.J. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.Ĭivil 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. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule - the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.īut Churchill’s Resistance soldiers on. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany.

Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany.ġ952.

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