About the book: 2023 / History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood, but what would happen if... Britain in 1940, after Dunkirk, capitulated to Nazi Germany? K. J. Sansom answers this question in his breathtaking alt-history epic Dominion, not by reimagining but by re-creating the past. 1952. In the east, the war between Germany and Russia continues, bleeding the world economy dry. Forced recruitment forces young people in France, Italy and Spain to literally hide in holes. The British are experiencing first-hand the horrors of fascist authoritarianism, but their disobedience is growing. The resistance, led by Churchill, is persistently trying to shift the balance of power on the world stage, and a certain secret kept by a scientist locked in a Birmingham mental hospital may serve as a fulcrum. On instructions from the Resistance, he is kidnapped in order to be transported abroad, but the Gestapo sends a ruthless, undefeated hunter of people on the trail of the fugitive... For the first time in Russian!