Munich
From the bestselling author of Conclave
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3.9 • 16 Ratings
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- €4.49
Publisher Description
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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
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.
Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The 1938 Munich peace negotiations form the backdrop for this intelligent novel. Thriller Award winner Harris (Conclave) presents the diplomatic give-and-take through the perspectives of two friends who have fallen out of touch: Hugh Legat of His Majesty's Diplomatic Service and his Oxford schoolmate, Paul von Hartmann, who serves as a translator for the German Foreign Ministry. For Hugh, the international crisis coincides with the deterioration of his marriage. Paul is recruited by a group of conspirators hoping that Hitler's militarily unrealistic plans to attack Czechoslovakia will lead his generals to support an effort to topple him. Meanwhile, Neville Chamberlain holds vigorous discussions with his cabinet about what he could and should do to avert what he believes will be a civilization-shattering conflict that will cost many British lives over "a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing." Harris succeeds in not only transforming a familiar historical event into a novel of suspense but in making the derided Chamberlain sympathetic. 100,000-copy announced first printing.)
Customer Reviews
Munich
Robert Harris is always readable. Though the idea of casting Neville Chamberlain in a quasi-heroic light and depicting Munich as a lost triumph of British diplomacy is an inversion of Dunkirk-like dimensions. For a thriller its remarkably short of thrills with the dodging through corridors and up and down staircases becomes Wodehousian at times. I liked the flying sequences though.