![]() ![]() Sansom’s Dominion, a ‘what if’ novel along the lines of Philip K. We are, of course, in past futures, a foreign country which did things differently we are in the country of C. There are those who want to end the hopeless war in the east there are those, chiefly in the SS, who want to carry on the struggle against the Slav ‘sub-humans’ until that elusive final victory. The future is uncertain, with no clear succession. ![]() In Berlin, Hitler, suffering from increasingly acute Parkinson’s disease, is nearing the end. Under the Treaty of Berlin, which ended the western war, the Isle of Wight has been turned over to Germany as a base. Enoch Powell is Secretary of State for India, where Britain is still fighting a rearguard action to retain the Jewel in the tawdry Crown. Oswald Mosley, whose fascist party made substantial gains in the rigged parliamentary election of 1950, is Home Secretary, in charge of the normal police and black-shirt recruited auxiliaries. In the west Britain, having made peace with Germany after the brief war of 1939-40, is governed by a crypto-fascist regime headed by Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, the press magnate. On a line roughly extending from Lake Ladoga in the north-west to the Caspian Sea in the south-east, the struggle is in stalemate, a contest punctuated by blows and counter blows which settle nothing. In the east the German war with Russia, now eleven years old, shows no sign of ending. ![]()
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