Sansom's literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned him 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, along with David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.Ĭ.J. And in a Birmingham mental hospital, fragile scientist Frank Muncaster holds a secret that could alter the balance of the global struggle forever.Ĭivil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. British Jews face ever greater constraints.īut Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. The press, radio and television are tightly controlled. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.ġ952. With the death of Hitler at the end of 1952 and the resulting Civil War I see the following events.At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C.J. Wether the US or the Soviets begin to support the Chinese will have to wait. Japan is also waging a brutal war in China, eventually that will crack. The post colonial states may view the Europeans with a lot of hate.ĥ. South Africa has already become a nazi-like state especially concerning Apartheid. The US may be unwilling to support the Europeans keeping their old colonies and may even force them to settle the matter. The British are facing guerrilla wars in East Africa and India that were being barely contained. Some will be captured by the Russians and shipped East.Ĥ. Lots of German scientists may defect to the West fearing the Russians. The US has the bomb, expect the Russians, British and others to either develop their own or steal the techology from the US. The US will be concerned with the Soviet advance and so may support the Germans to hold the line.ģ. Both sides already conducted ethnic cleasing and this will make Yugoslavia or Rwanda in OTL seem like a Sunday picnic. The war in Eastern Europe was already a brutal struggle in Dominion, with the overthrow of the National Socialists the Soviets will push for as much territory as possible. Right now the German's will be worried about the Soviets which were gaining massive amounts of territory during the civil war.Ģ. In fact the US is already suppling them through Hamburg. The SS is crushed by a military/nationalist government in Germany led by Rommel. With the death of Hitler at the end of 1952 and the resulting Civil War I see the following events.ġ. Britain and France were not Nazi satellites but were eclipsed by German military and economic might.

Dominion by cj sansom