A review by tsharris
Dominion by C.J. Sansom

4.0

Well-written alternate history spy thriller set in 1952 after Britain made peace with Nazi Germany in May 1940. This scenario has been done before - notably by Robert Harris and Jo Walton - but Sansom's is perhaps better than the others on the politics and society of a Britain drifting into fascism. I don't think he takes too many shortcuts. Ultimately any alternate history that takes on this premise is about what kind of society Britain was in 1930s, depressed, afraid of war, and in too many corners sympathetic (or more) with Nazi Germany. Maybe Churchill's rallying the British people was the most likely outcome, but books like this serve to show just what Churchill was up against.