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It is 1964 and preperations are underway in Berlin for the 75th birthday celebrations of Adolf Hitler. For it is indeed a very different Berlin to the one we know today - a city dominated by the huge triumphal arches and monolithic constructions of Hitlers architect Albert Speer, and the centre of a vast third Reich that spreads from the Rhine to the Urals under Hitler's thrall. Xavier March is a policeman in Berlin's criminal division. When an old man's body is discovered drowned, March begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but routine. Ordered off the case by the Gestapo, his curiosity leads him through a maze of unexplained homicides, Swiss bank accounts, secret documents dating from the Second World War and finally to a terrible revelation burried in history. Brilliantly told, meticulously researched, boldly imagine, Fatherland is quite simply the thriller of the decade.
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Fatherland, Robert Harris
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- Released
- 1992
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- Title
- Fatherland
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert Harris
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 372
- ISBN10
- 0091748275
- ISBN13
- 9780091748272
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Germany, USA, Murders, Wars, World War II, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Berlin, Jews, Holocaust, Nazism, Conspiracy, Third Reich (Nazi Germany), 1933-1945, Alternate History, Adolf Hitler, Nazis, Utopia, Political Thrillers
- First published
- 1992
- Original title
- Fatherland
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- It is 1964 and preperations are underway in Berlin for the 75th birthday celebrations of Adolf Hitler. For it is indeed a very different Berlin to the one we know today - a city dominated by the huge triumphal arches and monolithic constructions of Hitlers architect Albert Speer, and the centre of a vast third Reich that spreads from the Rhine to the Urals under Hitler's thrall. Xavier March is a policeman in Berlin's criminal division. When an old man's body is discovered drowned, March begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but routine. Ordered off the case by the Gestapo, his curiosity leads him through a maze of unexplained homicides, Swiss bank accounts, secret documents dating from the Second World War and finally to a terrible revelation burried in history. Brilliantly told, meticulously researched, boldly imagine, Fatherland is quite simply the thriller of the decade.