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Gareth Rubin is an author and journalist and today we're talking to him about his latest novel

Liberation Square set in a Soviet-occupied UK in the 1950s.

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So back to Gareth's novel. After a disastrous failure of D-Day,

Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany

and only rescued by Soviet soldiers

arriving from the east and Americans from the West.

The two superpowers divide the nation between them,

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