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Reviewed on September 15, 2013 | Fiction
Neville Chamberlain's preferred successor as Britain's prime minister in May 1940 was his dour foreign secretary, Lord Halifax, not the brilliant but sometimes rash Winston Churchill. Sansom's new stand-alone (after Winter in Madrid) ponders what might have happened if Chamberlain had had his way: a surrendered Britain at peace following the fall of France and governed by the likes of Max Beaverbrook, Oswald Moseley, and other quislings under Hitler's thumb; a Nazi Germany still caught in a seemingly endless death struggle deep within the v...Log In or Sign Up to Read More



