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Munich

By: Robert Harris
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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From the best-selling 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?

©2017 Robert Harris (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks Espionage Historical Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting War Suspense Transportation

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A tremendous, superior storyline that could so easily be taken as history as it happened.

Absolutely engrossing

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Helped me to remember the realities of our subterfugous world that I have lived through!

Reality is fiction

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An enjoyable listen, I am unsure if there is a passage missing. The story passed quickly.

An enjoyable listen

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I had to endure through this book, one of my pet hates: the pronunciation of an English word (Munich) as if it were a German word. It’s not. The Germans call Munich München, so please don’t pronounce Munich as if it were a German word. So annoying. Otherwise, a most enjoyable book about a fascinating period in history.

Munich like stick, not like the German for “I”

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I appreciate it is based on a true story, but not a lot really happens in this book. Probably only recommended for those interested in WW2 politics etc.

Ok, but never really takes off

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A brilliant sub plot around these historic negotiations
Pacy, panicky & penitent.
A great story which will give me another view of events whenever they are shown again.
I look forward to the upcoming film.
Rev

No time for the Bierfest

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This is a great story absolutely perfectly narrated by David Rintoul. I loved it. Couldn’t stop listening to it.

Stunning

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Robert Harris writes believable historical fiction (or political fiction, alternative history). His prose style is smooth and articulate. Comparison with the historical fiction of Ken Follett (Column of Fire) issued a few days before underlines Harris’s infinite superiority and Rintoul’s skill as a narrator!
Most of the personages in the book are real people- the ones we see in old Pathé newsreels, saw on TV news as children, and the main (fictional) protagonists, once friends at university, estranged for six years as Hitler rises to power, after a difficult holiday in Munich. Fate, with some help, brings them back to Munich, as Chamberlain desperately tries to avert war.
With the release of secret government documents as time allows, has resulted in historians reassessing Chamberlain’s actions in 1938 more positively, and Harris has followed this line, and added some speculative tension to the real horror of 1938 - the building of primitive fortifications in central London, issuing of gas masks to adults and children (babies too), the exodus from London of anyone fortunate enough to have somewhere to go!
Rintoul as usual reads the story with clear diction, well paced, and tackles dialogue in German, French and Italian (always translated to English, so don’t panic if you’re not a polyglot) with convincing pronunciation and fluency.
Literate, but never pompous or condescending, as we expect of Harris. Look forward to his next book!

Another great Harris/Rintoul Audiobook

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an amazing book which needs a read, if you want to understand more about hitler, here is a good start

must read

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characters 2 dimensional. The plot against Hitler and plan to get to Chamberlain doesn't work.

period detail excellent but story unbelievable

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