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Historical Fiction · 2012 · PG-13

Dominion

by C. J. Sansom

It is 1952 — Britain made peace with Hitler in 1940 — and a civil servant discovers a terrible secret.

For14+GenreHistorical FictionLength576 pagesRead time~16 hours

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Violence

Some

Nazi occupation violence; resistance killings

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Barely any

Brief adult content

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Themes of collaboration, resistance, and what we would do in impossible circumstances

What this book is about

Sansom's 2012 alternate history thriller imagines Britain under Nazi occupation, following David Fitzgerald, a civil servant in Halifax's collaborationist government, who gets drawn into the resistance. Dark and claustrophobic. For older teens and adults.

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Nazi occupation

Alternate history

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