Language English Pages 56 pp Country United Kingdom | Publication date 16 June 1942 Originally published 16 June 1942 Publisher Methuen Publishing | |
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Genres Propaganda, Alternate history Henry Vollam Morton books In Search of London, The Heart of London, The Call of England, In Search of Scotland, A Stranger in Spain | ||
I, James Blunt is a 1942, wartime alternate history short-story by English journalist H. V. Morton. It takes the form of a diary written by an English tradesman chronicling the Nazi occupation of Great Britain in the fall of 1944. The short-story was commissioned by the Ministry of Information as propaganda and is Morton's only work of fiction beside his travel journalism writings for which he is better known. George Orwell described the novel as "a good flesh creeper, founded on the justified assumption that the mass of the English people haven't heard of fascism."
Plot Summary
The novel chronicles the occupation of the United Kingdom by the Nazis from 11 September 1944 to 13 March 1945 who begin a program of "complete Germanisation" of the country. St Paul's Cathedral is razed to make room for a Nazi Party headquarters and guerrilla warfare and any potential dissidence is suppressed through heavy policing.