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Fatherland
Fatherland
Author: Robert Harris
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. — As March discovers the identity of t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679412731
ISBN-10: 0679412735
Publication Date: 5/26/1992
Pages: 338
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 19 ratings
Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 2
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Helpful Score: 5
What would things be like if Hitler had won WWII? It's 1964 and the President is Kennedy ... not JFK but his father, Joe!! An interesting turn of events ... what if Hitler had won?? Couldn't put the book down.
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Absorbing, chilling alternative history... What would life be like had Nazi Germany won World War II? Robert Harris explores this question in this wonderful combination of alternative history and murder mystery, as a police officer in 1964 Berlin dominated by an aging Hitler pieces together clues linking the recent murder of one man with a terrible wartime secret - one involving the deaths of millions...
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Helpful Score: 2
Excellent WWII spy thriller alternate history.
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Fun, exciting and a fast read.
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this book is absorbing and frightening.
it is twenty years after nazi germany's triumphant victory in ww2.
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The year is 1964. Hitler is alive and well and Jospeh Kennedy is President of the US. Read by Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes. Who could ask for more??
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One of the better alternate history novels out there. Well researched and well written, Robert Harris did a fantastic job conveying his story and point across. This needs a big budget movie adaptation!
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Decent plot, but unremarkable book. Nothing shocking about it, if you're even remotely fimilar with the Nazis.

The last fourty pages or so were great. Again, nothing shocking. I'm usually one who won't finish a book if I'm not enjoying the book a lot, but I'm glad I finished this one.
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Great alternative history premising Hitler winning.

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