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I’ve never read a book that more starkly highlighted for me how thankful the good people of the world should be tha…
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I’ve never read a book that more starkly 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. Kennedy (JFK’s daddy), has agreed to visit Germany in an attempt to warm and toasty up relations between the two countries who've been in “cold war” mode since the end of WWII. (NOTE: In real life, Joey P. was a rabid anti-semite, a rumored Nazi sympathizer, and quite a little bootlegger during Prohibition...way to role model for John, Robert and Teddy). While there are numerous fascinating little details that Harris incorporates into the narrative, here are the critical “points of divergence” between this story’s “alternative history” and our reality: 1. In the novel, German intelligence became aware that the British had cracked the enigma code, and use that knowledge to lure the British fleet to destruction via false intelligence. Thereafter, the German U-Boats are able to starve Britain and force them into a demoralizing treaty in 1944. As a result the Normandy invasion never occurs. 2. Partially as a result of 1 above, in the novel, WWII was still ongoing in 1946, when Germany tests its first “atomic bomb” and then fires an unarmed “V-3” rocket to explode over New York City as a demonstration of strength. Soon after, the U.S. agrees to a peace treaty with the Nazis. Germany and the U.S. become the world’s two “superpowers” after the U.S. defeats Japan in 1946 (a year later then in reality). 3. …
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Fatherland, by Robert Harris, a 1992 novel of alternate history conceived as: "What might have happened if the Nazis w…
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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 with a number of actual high-ranking Nazis such as Reinhard Heydrich and Wilhelm Stuckart imaginatively projected into his fictional Germany. Other Nazis in the novel are consistent with those who followed their Führer back in the day. The novelist's language is as crisp as a Nazi goosestep, making for one fast-paced page-turner.At the center of the action is Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Nazi SS, applying his detective skills to crack a case quickly spiraling into a complex political drama. Along the way March teams up with young attractive American journalist Charlotte Maguire, thus, this Harris tale is not only alternate twentieth century history but a sexy international thriller. That’s all I intend to say about plot since my specific interest in reading this novel was to see how all the arts are faring in the land of Hitler and the Nazis thirty years after the war. To this end, below are some quotes along with my comments:The image of the superior blonde, blue-eyed Ayran is still alive and kicking. We read: “The press portrayed Reinhard Heydrich as Nietzsche’s Superman sprung to life. Heydrich in his pilot’s uniform (he had flown combat missions on the eastern front). Heydrich in his fencing gear (he had fenced for Germany in the Olympics). Heydrich with his violin (he could reduce audiences to tears by the pathos of his playing).” Hitler despised modern music, actually any music other than ninteenth century classical, usually …
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What if Hitler won the war? Robert Harris's bestselling suspense / speculative fiction thriller attempts to show us…
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What if Hitler won the war? Robert Harris's bestselling suspense / speculative fiction thriller attempts to show us. In a Europe dominated by the German Third Reich in the 1960s, a somewhat lack lustre Nazi police investigator decides to attend a murder scene on his day off, as something to do. He finds a fat naked man with a missing foot drowned in the Havel river and that's when his personal nightmare that could change world history begins. A good read, much better than later novels of Harris I have read. 7 out of 12 Three Star read.2012 read
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But it is singular in the rigour with which it imagines an alternative history.
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Robert Harris's Fatherland is not the first work of fiction to imagine the Germans as victors in the second world war. The author has acknowledged a debt, for instance, to Len Deighton's SS-GB.
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Fatherland, by Robert Harris, by the latter definition, might just be one title that can be counted among the greatest works of alternate history.
How Heydrich surviving could lead to the other changes is difficult to see, but perhaps it could be because he was more competent than a lot of the other high-ranking Nazis. Events of Fatherland.
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Characters frequently mention Heydrich in Fatherland as head of the SS, although he doesn’t appear in person, and his survival is the earliest change to history implied in the book.
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