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Title: Munich

Author: Robert Harris

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-17

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Following the success of Conclave comes Robert Harris' new novel, bound for best seller-dom as he returns to the historical terrain of his best-known book, Fatherland.

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 afterward be notorious for what takes place there. Munich.

As Chamberlain's plane judders across the Channel and the Fürher'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 together 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?

Members Reviews:

Munich Revisited

We go behind the scenes at the Munich Conference of 1938. Hitler and Chamberlain share the stage with fictional characters. The author tantalises us with possibilities and a few twists, making for a solid political thriller.

The story is presented as it might be in a play. Act One begins in Whitehall, the second scene takes us to Wilhelmstrasse ; in Munich we move between the Fuhrerbau and the Regina Palast Hotel. The cast is balanced between the British team â all decent chaps â and the Nazi leadership. Robert Harris seeks to rehabilitate Chamberlain - loving husband, passionate about peace and a tough negotiator.

Into the main event, the author works the lesser known Oster conspiracy. This is where the two narrators come into play. Hugh Legat works in Downing Street, Paul von Hartmann has a post in the German Foreign Office. They knew each other at Oxford, of course! They are fictional but are credible types, if being provided with somewhat cliched backstories.

I found some of the dialogue clunky, which rendered the conspiracy unconvincing. The book would be improved by a map of the different settings, as the action involves much to and froing: corridors and galleries crisscrossed, stairs ascended and descended, corners turned left then right. This reader frequently got lost. Further an appendix of participants in Munich would have helped â just who was who at the conference.

Does it add anything to the vast literature on this subject? I donât think so. Would it not be rather fitting to look at more recent episodes in peace/war diplomacy? Perhaps, but appeasement remains enduringly popular.

Despite these reservations, and some flaws, I found it an enjoyable and easy read.

Not as good as Harris' earlier books

The book is about the Munich Crisis. It begins on 27 September 1938. On the previous day Hitler had delivered an ultimatum to Czechoslovakia that it should surrender the Sudetenland by the 28th September. It ends four days later, the day Chamberlain returned from Munich to London.