Great Britain, 1937: Edward VIII will not abdicate. He and his new bride, Wallis Simpson, are preparing for their coronation. Winston Churchill is a prisoner on the Isle of Man. The Prime Minister, Oswald Mosley consults the new Chancellor of Germany, and his close ally, Adolf Hitler on a more #x18;permanent#x19; solution to the #x18;Jewish problem#x19;.The secret police have Britain in an iron grip.But one man, James Armstrong , a hero of the Great War, is organising the resistance against the government . While #x18;the leader#x19; is determined to see him hang, Armstrong, constantly on the run, is every bit as clever and resolute as his enemy.In the tradition of Robert Harris#x19;s Fatherland, Guy Walters has writen a compelling, page-turning what-if thriller that imagines a nightmare vision of a Britain that could have been, if history had gone the other way.
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