It is autumn 1939, and everything in history is just as it was. Except, that is, for the identity of the king in Buckingham Palace--and the existence of a secret organization operating at the highest levels of society and determined to derail the war effort against Nazi Germany. The Windsor Faction is an ingenious exercise in what-might-have-been that assembles a cast of real and imaginary characters in a horrifyingly plausible re-invention of history.