From a platoon of captured British troops held as prisoners of war, to Major Jochen Wolf and the conflicted, and conflicting men of the SS in whose care they are placed to the band of auxiliary partisans in the underground British resistance, anti-fascist veterans of the Spanish Civil War to Naomi, a young, female Jewish teacher in Leeds and her clever, quirky male friend Maisie a London shopgirl and Hans, an unwilling German soldier drafted to the Wehrmacht Bill Wilson ageing, monosyllabic alcoholic in a Bloomsbury pub a humanist-libertarian journalist of renown four young conscripts to the German Wehrmacht occupation force Charlie, a disabled cockney street kid the men of the SS Einsatzgruppen (action groups), whose 'police' work in occupied countries was a euphemism for murder and suppression to the SS leaders themselves and their machinations for power and internecine intrigues, including "The Blond Beast," one of the 20th century's most notorious villains in SS and Police General Reinhard 'The Hangman' Heydrich himself. Jackboot Britain is a nightmare world the book tells a harrowing tale of militarisation, dehumanisation, prejudice, power and war, as it follows the trials and tribulations of a range of characters from various walks of life, as they struggle to exist in a Europe - and occupied UK - ruled by the Germany of Adolf Hitler.
The Alternate History - What if Hitler beat the Brits? JACKBOOT BRITAIN is a new novel set in an alternate 1940 in which Nazi Germany was victorious over the British Empire.
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