I, James Blunt

I, James Blunt
Author	H. V. Morton
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Propaganda, future history
Publisher	Methuen
Publication date	16 June 1942
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	56 pp

I, James Blunt is a 1942 wartime future 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 autumn of 1944. The short-story was commissioned by the Ministry of Information as propaganda. It is Morton's only work of fiction besides his travel journalism writings, for which he is better known. George Orwell described the short story as "a good flesh creeper, founded on the justified assumption that the mass of the English people haven't heard of fascism."[1]

Plot summary

The short story chronicles the occupation of the United Kingdom by the Nazis from 11 September 1944 to 13 March 1945 who begin a programme 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.

References

Rosenfeld, Gavriel (23 May 2005). The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism. Cambridge University Press; 1st Ed edition. p. 40. ISBN 978-0521847063.

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[1] Rosenfeld, Gavriel (23 May 2005). The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism. Cambridge University Press; 1st Ed edition. p. 40. ISBN 978-0521847063.