Fatherland

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It is twenty years after Nazi Germany s triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the F hrer s seventy fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March a disillusioned but talented investigation of a corpse washed up on the shore of a lake When a dead man turns out to be a high ranking Nazi commander, the Gestapo orders March off the case immediately Suddenly other unrelated deaths are anything but routine.Now obsessed by the case, March teams up with a beautiful, young American journalist and starts asking questionsdangerous questions What they uncover is a terrifying and long concealed conspiracy of such astonding and mind numbing terror that is it certain to spell the end of the Third Reich if they can live long enough to tell the world about it. Read Fatherland – kino-fada.fr I ve never read a book thatstarkly highlighted for me how thankful the good people of the world should be that the allies won World War II While my final rating was a somewhat subdued 3 stars, there are parts of this story that I found extremely compelling BACKSTORY ALTERNATIVE HISTORY Welcome to a very dark future It s 1964, and all of Germany is preparing to celebrate Adolf Shitler s 75th birthday As part of this national event, the President of the United States, Joseph P Kenne I ve never read a book thatstarkly highlighted for me how thankful the good people of the world should be that the allies won World War II While my final rating was a somewhat subdued... Fatherland, by Robert Harris, a 1992 novel of alternate history conceived as What might have happened if the Nazis won World War II Set in 1964 Berlin, all the novel s characters are sharply drawn and passionately motivated in decidedly political directions The author has done his research and knows the Nazi world inside out, sticking...What do you do, he said, if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work forFartherland offers a dismaying vision of what could have been If the Nazis had won world war two, if their power had continued to spread, they would have owned half the world perhaps even all of it if they conquered at the speed they demonstrated in the 1930s Their momentum was near unbelievable The world would be in a terrible staWhat do you do, he said, if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work forFartherland offers a dismaying vision of what could have been If the Nazis had won world war two, if their power had continued to spread, they would have owned half the world perhaps even all of it if they conquered at the speed they demonstrated in the 1930s Their momentum was near unbelievable The world would be in a terrible state today it would be universally unrecognisable and utterly oppressed Murder, butchery and politicsHitler is still Fuhrer The book opens with his 75th birthday celebration the entirety of Germany is out in celebration of their leader it s a national holiday, one all must celebrate A body is found floating in the dark murky wa...I am sure it s a question that s been pondered on by countless many, just what if Hitler had really won the war or even worse taken over the planet Would we be in a state of total autocracy , would Companies likeand Microsoft be run by the Third Reich , would the gestapo be snooping on emails Or the flip side to that, what if no war at all , what if Hitler, Himmler, Bor...It is the 1960 s in Berlin American President and Nazi sympathizer Joseph Kennedy has at long last agreed to meet with the Fuehrer Fatherland presents an alternate history in which Germany won WW II, without taking out China or the United States A Berlin detective is called to investigate a murder, sees connections among various disappearances and follows them despite interference from his superiors He encounters a young American journalist...Sometimes it seems like every Tom, Phillip K Dick, and Harry Turtledove wrote books that asked what would have happened if Hitler won the war It s 1964 and Germany is preparing to celebrate Hitler s 75th birthday Police detective Xavier March is called in when a body is pulled out of a river, and he soon discovers that the dead man was a prominent member of the Nazi party March s investigation eventually leads him to secrets going back to the war that his government is desperate to keep buri Sometimes it seems like every Tom, Phillip K Dick, and Harry Turtledove wrote books that asked what would have happened if Hitler won the war It s 1964 and Germany is preparing to celebrate Hitler s 75th birthday Police detective Xavier March is called in when a body is pulled out of a river, and he soon discovers that the dead man was a prominent member of the Nazi party March s investigation eventually leads him to secrets going back to the war that his government is desperate to keep buried.So yes, this is another book about the most asked question in alternate history What if the Nazis won World War II But by framing this as mystery thriller Robert Harris has taken a different approach to it by using March as tour guide of a victorious Germany We ev...A murder in 1960s Nazi Germany draws one Berlin detective into a greater mystery than he could have ever imagined Or could he The great thing about Fatherland is that Robert Harris doesn t try to do too much with the counterfactual history It s definitely there, of course, but the reader discovers it naturally as fictional historical details come up in the flow of the novel There is no heavy handed explanation of how this alternate history diverged from the history we know, no listing of A murder in 1960s Nazi Germany draws one Berlin detective into a grea...This book had been on my radar for quite some time and I finally got it from my library It was a very enjoying read indeed.The book presents an anternate history scenario where Hitler has won the Second World War and Eastern Europe has been conquered by the Nazis The nations of Western Europe has been forced into a trading block and the German currency is accepeted all over continental Europe.Hitler s birthday is approaching and people are getting ready to celebrate A body has been discovered This book had been on my radar for quite some time and I finally got it from my library It was a very enjoying read indeed.The book presents an anternate history scenario where Hitler has won the Second World War and Eastern Europe has been conquered by the Nazis The nations of Western Europe has been forced into a trading block and the German currency is accepeted all over continental Europe.Hitler s birthday is approaching and people are getting ready to celebrate A body has been discovered and enters Xavier March, ex navy and presently an investigator in Kripo the Kriminal Polizei The body turns out to be that of a ...Can you read a book too many times Well, I have to admit that this is the seventh time I ve read Fatherland I still thinks it s as fresh as when I first read it over twenty years ago The story just seems to grip me from first page to last Harris seamlessly blends fact fiction as his thriller takes us through Berlin in 1964 in the week leading up to Adolf Hitler s 75th birthday Thi...What if Hitler had won Author Robert Harris presents a world where Germany came out on top following WWII Hitler remains as head of Germany s Western European empire with several of his key associates like Joseph Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich in positions of power.Following Germany s discovery of the cracking of the Enigma Code, the Reich cruised to victory over its enemies in Europe The United States victory over Japan still ended with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but it was delay What if Hitler had won Author Robert Harris presents a world where Germany came out on top following WWII Hitler remains as head of Germany s Western European empire with several of his key associates like Joseph Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich in positions of power.Following Germany s discovery of the cracking of the Enigma Code, the Reich cruised to victory over its enemies in Europe The United States victory over Japan still ended with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but it was delayed by a year During that period, Germany had the time to build their own atomic bombs, ushering in a cold war with America.With Germany enjoying unprecedented economic success coupled with a vast, overreaching empire, a question still linge...

Fatherland
  • English
  • 04 December 2017
  • Paperback
  • 380 pages
  • 0061006629
  • Robert Harris
  • Fatherland