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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of V2 and Fatherland—a WWII-era spy thriller set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Now a Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons.

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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071DLM6L4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (January 16, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 16, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 10725 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 450 pages
Reviewer: Ed and Shawn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Read
Review: Well written book. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It’s from an interesting period of time from a fascinating perspective. I look forward to another of his books.

Reviewer: amachinist
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 94 Hours toward Peace or War
Review: Harris's novel recounts the events surrounding the 1938 Munich Agreement. The book is a real page turner despite its historically based predictable ending. The introduction of two fictional characters adds tension to the event. One character is an Englishman with His Majesty's Diplomatic Service, very loosely based on David Astor. The other, a fellow classmate of the Englishman at Oxford, is with the German Foreign Ministry and more closely based on the life of the anti-Nazi, Adam von Trott zu Solz. During the tedious and lengthy four days ofmeetings surrounding the drafting of the agreement, there is a lot of intrigue involving these two young men.This book sheds a new light on the Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain. Chastised by most historians as the great "appeaser" of Hitler, it reveals that Chamberlain wanted to avoid another word war at any cost. He would literally do anything, including abetting the annexation of the Sudetenland by Hitler in order to prevent another world conflict. For awhile, it seemed to be working, but then Hitler proved by his bellicose actions that he was not to be trusted.Finally, the story highlights how unprepared Britain was to take on a major military conflict. Very little had been done for twenty years since the end of WWI to rebuild and modernize the army, navy and air force and to construct land fortifications like anti-aircraft guns against future bombing raids. This unpreparedness weighed heavily on Chamberlain's mind and also guided his conduct during the Munich conference.The late night "joy" ride of the two fictional characters to Dachau and a nursing home seems to be a bit of a stretch. Nevertheless, this novel provides an entertaining historical refresher course as the 80th anniversary of the drafting of the Munich Agreement approaches.

Reviewer: Ronald H. Clark
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Drama behind the Events at the 1938 Munich Conference
Review: There are few authors as adept as Robert Harris in writing excellent historical fiction. This is true whether he is writing about ancient Rome, the contemporary Vatican, or as here, Hitler's Germany. In large measure this is true for two reasons: first, he does extensive research so that every page sparkles with authenticity; second, he is just a remarkable storyteller. His great talents are well on display in this novel set during the 1938 Munich big four talks where Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is remembered for declaring "peace in our time" had emerged.Harris faces particular challenges in setting his story with the Munich conference as the background. Munich has been studied and dissected by so many historians, that it is very well known in its most minute details. Harris is so able to fit his fictional story into this framework that it is often difficult to know what is history and what is fictional--one mark of superior historical fiction. The key characters, one a young British diplomat (Hugh Legat), the other his German counterpart, were friends years before while at Oxford. Each is fluent in both English and German. Harris takes us into his reconstruction of meetings within Chamberlain's advisers as war appears likely, as he does for strategy sessions within Hitler's inner circle. The German,Paul von Hartmann, apparently is a member of the dissident group that will eventually try to kill Hitler in 1944. He has sent a highly incriminating document of Hitler's plans for Europe to Legat, so he may show it to the PM before any decisions are made at the conference.Legat is too junior to justify a meeting with the PM; but he is added to the team going to Munich. Hartmann himself set to attend the conference plans to hook up with Legat and get the document to Chamberlain. Their efforts to accomplish this goal right in the middle on tight German security adds a note of suspense and tension. Harris keeps all the events going on well structured so the reader does not get lost in the flurry. I will not spoil the story by recounting what the PM does when he finally reads the document.Harris creates a last-minute private meeting between Hitler and Chamberlain just before the PM flies back to London. I don't know if such a meeting in fact did occur. But in the novel, Hitler and the PM sigh off on the famous document that Chamberlain displays on his return that he asserts creates "peace in our time," which of course soon became obvious that it did nothing of the kind, leading to Chamberlain's fall and the installation of Churchill as PM. One interesting aspect of the novel is that Harris treats Chamberlain with kid gloves--he is always polite and a more skillful writer than history suggests. While the book is no "page turner" which the reader cannot stop reading until the conclusion, it is pretty suspenseful at points and holds the reader's interest throughout its 303 pages.Frequently, historical fiction writers have "afterwords" where they explain what was true and what is part of their story. That is not the case here and I think it would have been helpful. Harris in his acknowledgements lists the books he relied upon, which attest to his extensive research. He also wrote a non-fiction book about Hitler and worked on a 1988 documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Munich. So he is well versed in this topic and it shows. A fine novel that also allows the reader to learn a bit of history about one of the most important developments in the 20th century.

Reviewer: Micheline Beauchemin
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Cut short in the middle of the story
Review: Well written, full of captivating details, but not much of a thriller. A low level diplomatic civil servant, Legat, is given documents to prove Hitler’s desire for war while signing agreements for peace with Chamberlain, the then British Prime minister. Hartmann, himself a German diplomat, is an old schoolmate from Oxford, and an active member of the clandestine opposition to the nazis.Legat and Hartmann revealed the document to Chamberlain on the eve of a public peace declaration, agreeing to give the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany. In exchange for peace. The story then cuts short, leaving us knowing Legat will resign from the service to enter the Royal Air Force, while Hartmann will go on as an opponent to Hitler and will eventually hang for it after a plot to kill Hitler fails.We are left at that at the end of the book. Material for a follow up book? It better be, because the reader if left with a draft for a sequel. I am a big fan of Robert Harris, but this book is not a very satisfying read.

Reviewer: Cliente Amazon
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: O autor relata um tempo histórico do começo da segunda guerra, onde os Ingleses fizeram um grande esforço para evitar a guerra.O autor retrata bem estes períodos tumultuado

Reviewer: Tonima chakraborty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: If you have an obsession with the wars or if you wanna relive history.. read this! It’s just brilliant! 👌

Reviewer: William T
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.Henry JamesHawthorne(1879)"The weeks and days leading up to WWII and the gripping suspense of Britain's11th hour attempts to calm the waters of Hitler's belligerent Germany makes for fearsome intrigue. Much dramatic history was made in Chamberlin's pre-war Britain.Upon reading the raving advance reviews of this historical/fiction novel before it hit the market, I immediately felt compelled to pre-order a copy - something I never imagined doing, as I'm not an enthusiastic shopper! But the reviews gushed with praise for this author, so I just had to check it out myself. On the promised date Kindle downloaded my copy seamlessly and pre-paid; how groovy is THAT! MY kind of shopping!The reviewers were right. Author Harris has his writing style perfected, he's written a real corker. A page-turner of the highest measure. (I'm so jealous. I worked as a journalist and I yearned to be this great. Damn his eyes!)The prose is tight, fast-moving and loaded with all the good things that top writers do: perfect metaphors, informed detail of place and time, real human characters who come alive on the page.I'm only 1/2 way through the book, and I'm SO into it!

Reviewer: WS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Spedizione velocissima, prodotto impeccabile

Reviewer: William Craw
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I have always liked his historical recreations, but this one is the best of all. Sadly the "munich" syndrome appears to have resurfaced in the world of today...