Robert Harris

Soon to be a Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons _________________________ MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they're hiding. Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace? _________________________ 'A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer 'Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail on Sunday _________________________ Now available: V2, Robert Harris's latest historical thriller

Soon to be a major movie starring Jeremy Irons

Munich

Astor Reinhardt

Here is my poor attempt at a review. I won a copy of this book in a giveaway on Goodreads.

When I had heard Robert Harris was writing another book about Nazi Germany, I was excited. I had loved his other book 'Fatherland', so I expected to love this one as well.

Not so. It was very hard to get through and finish the whole book. It's dry and boring. There is a slight hint of excitement, but it never quite builds up. What you are left with is a fairly boring book about governments and meetings.

It's just dull. I can't honestly say more than that as...the book really is nothing more than what I just said.

I think the book could have been better. There is a tiny sub-plot, where the two main characters go to see their old friend. That character and her story could have been made more important. She was about the only interesting thing in this book.

It's a shame, I really did expect better. And I wanted to like this book.

Keernan Lanismore

** spoiler alert **
           Enjoyed the book while reading it; but cursed out loud when I got to the non ending.

riven

Ciska van Bokhorst

Het einde deed hem de das om. Verder vond ik het een best goed boek.
Prettige schrijfstijl.
Boeken met het onderwerp de tweede wereld oorlog vind ik altijd heel interessant. Dit boek is gebaseerd op historische feiten en had een ander onderwerp dan ik normaal lees: de politiek.
Je voelt toch een soort van spanning.. zal het ze lukken terwijl je weet dat het niet zo is.
Zoals gezegd vond ik het einde een beetje anti climax. Iets te "ongeloofwaardig"
Maar verder heeft het boek wel voor de nodige uurtjes leesplezier gezorgd...

From the best-selling author of V2 and Fatherland--a WWII-era spy thriller set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Soon to be a Netflix film. With this electrifying novel about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, "Harris has brought history to life with exceptional skill" (The Washington Post). Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course. And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importance--here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier--at the heart of an electrifying, unputdownable novel.

A novel

James Greeley

Félix

MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they're hiding. Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace? 'A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer 'Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail on Sunday

Bjørn Eirik Sletta

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Anke De Cock

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVE AND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Führer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven't seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again. When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience?

Munich Soon to be a major movie starring Jeremy Irons

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