6/30/2023 0 Comments Dominion sansom novel![]() ![]() ![]() It is 1952, 12 years after Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after the brief 1939-40 conflict (which people called "the Dunkirk campaign or the Jews' war, according to political taste"). Sansom's "Dominion," comes another fiendishly concocted counterfactual history. Taylor imagined Wallis Simpson dying in 1936 and a pro-German Edward VIII remaining on the throne. World War II, Britain's finest hour, has inspired the richest creative license: Len Deighton's "SS-GB" saw a Britain conquered and occupied by Nazi Germany Robert Harris' "Fatherland" opens in the week before Hitler's 75th birthday, and "The Windsor Faction" by D.J. Just as there is a tendency among the English to play down their achievements with self-deprecation, so is there a propensity among English novelists to rewrite their country's success as failure. ![]()
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