


In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House.ĭefiance, though, is growing. 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. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.ġ952. At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C.
