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by C.J. Sansom
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markk
markk rated it 5 years ago
Much like American history, British history seems to have a default setting when it comes to alternate history novels. For U.S. history, that setting is the Civil War, for which innumerable stories playing around with different outcomes and their consequences. For British history, however, the defau...
stephenroberts
stephenroberts rated it 10 years ago
It's not Sansom's best book, but it's not bad. It's fairly well paced for the most part though it lags a bit in the middle and is probably longer than it needs to be. Despite it being well researched, and its meticulously planned alternate reality, at its core it becomes a run of the mill spy story ...
Steph's Books
Steph's Books rated it 10 years ago
Even though I have read most of the Shardlake novels by C J Sansom and loved them I found Dominion to be completely different. The first half of the novel made me feel very uneasy for reasons I can't really explain. The feelings eased a bit in the second half of the book, when I felt that the style ...
Steph's Books
Steph's Books rated it 10 years ago
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Toni
Toni rated it 11 years ago
This fiction is a dark and terrifyingly alternative history of what might have happened if Churchill had failed to become Prime Minister in May 1940 and the nightmare scenario where the British people are forced to live under menacing authoritarian rules.The author weaves a gripping and atmospheric ...
Cushla
Cushla rated it 11 years ago
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers, and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. 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; t...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: winter-20122013, wwii, alternative-history, published-2012, e-book, mystery-thriller, spies, handbag-read Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Pat Read from July 26, 2012 to January 25, 2013 Nutty NUUT readDedication: To the memory of my parents, TREVOR SANSOM (1921–2000) and ANN SANSOM (1...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
Nutty NUUT readDedication: To the memory of my parents, TREVOR SANSOM (1921–2000) and ANN SANSOM (1924–1990), who in 1939–1945 endured the hardships and did their bit to defeat the Nazis. And of ROSALITA, R.I.P. 19.2.2012Opening quote: ‘The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon b...
carey
carey rated it 12 years ago
I really enjoyed this alternative history about Britain having signed a peace treaty in 1940.
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