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Dominion
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Great Smog. London. A dense, choking fog engulfs the city and beneath it, history is re-written…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; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House.
Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. 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. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission by them to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country.
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 hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men… At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.
Critic Reviews
”Every note of this smoggy hell rings true. Yet this switched history also shows how hope might dawn to end the rule of ‘blood and fear’.” (The Independent, Boyd Tonkin)
”Haunting, vividly imagined novel…You will find few better historical novels, even if much of the history it uses never really happened.” (Sunday Times Culture, Nick Rennison)
"What would have happened had Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk? CJ Sansom’s latest historical novel gives a gripping answer, featuring a 1952 England rife with oppression, rumour and defiant rebellion." (Sunday Telegraph Seven)
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- Jason Medley
- 20-11-2023
Dominion
Absolutely fabulous! Story line brilliant and the narrator was brilliant and so talented, it was amazing how the narrator switched from accent to accent and made the storyline so captivating! Highly recommended!
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- C.D.
- 29-08-2023
Very Enjoyable
I really enjoyed this take on an alternative history. The narration was brilliant - I was impressed by his many different accents
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- Grant Lewis
- 14-06-2023
liked it a lot
well read and never got boring. no repetitive unnecessary sex scenes. All in all a nice package.
suspending belief of course in the British being so subservient.
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- Casper
- 02-05-2021
1st time reader of author, Sansom. Great read.
I'm looking forward to listening to more of Sansom's books. I have now gone out and purchased the book. The characters development is fantastic. And great storyline.
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- raelene
- 29-10-2019
Slow
A little slow at times and for me not the author's normal page turner. Disappointed when the big 'secret' seemd like a foot note at the end. Anti climax
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- Yvonne
- 20-06-2018
Aternative History
What would happen if appeasement happened at the start of WW2. Fantastic read. Very plausible.
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