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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 the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
From the Paperback edition.
- Sales Rank: #34671 in Books
- Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Published on: 2006-09-05
- Released on: 2006-09-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.97" h x .72" w x 5.20" l, .57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Features
From Publishers Weekly
An eerie, detailed alternate history serves as the backdrop for this otherwise conventional crime thriller. The setting is Berlin, 1964, some 20 years after the Third Reich's victory in WW II. Germany and the U.S., the world's two superpowers, find themselves in a cold war resulting from a nuclear stalemate; but U.S. President Joseph P. Kennedy is soon to visit Berlin for an historic summit meeting with Hitler, clearing the way for detente. Meanwhile, cynical police detective Xavier March investigates the drowning of Josef Buhler, former state secretary in the General Government. When the Gestapo takes over the case--ruling it suicide--March continues his investigation at the risk of his life, uncovering a deadly conspiracy at the highest levels of the Reich. With the help of American reporter Charlotte Maguire, he finds hard evidence of the wartime extermination of Europe's Jews, a secret that Buhler and his colleagues have been murdered to protect. Of course March and Maguire fall in love along the way. Harris ( Selling Hitler ) generates little suspense in this tale beyond his piecemeal rendering of the novel's unusual historical setting. The characters are flat and the plot largely predictable. And readers may well question the taste of using the Holocaust as the point of departure for a rather insubstantial, derivative thriller. 75,000 first printing; BOMC selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The year is 1964. The setting is Berlin. JFK's father, Joe Kennedy, is president. Edward VIII is king, Wallis his queen. Adolf Hitler is about to celebrate his 75th birthday. In this thriller with a twist, the stalemate which ended World War II has evolved into a cold war, not between the Soviet Union and the United States, but between the Third Reich and America. Police investigator Xavier March handles a case involving the death of a prominent Nazi, an apparent suicide. The trail leads to other suicides, accidental deaths, a numbered vault in Zurich, and a beautiful American reporter. March discovers the pattern behind the deaths and locates incriminating papers exposing the Holocaust, which, because Germany didn't lose the war, has been kept secret for 20 years. Harris, author of the nonfiction title Selling Hitler ( LJ 5/15/86), is clearly well versed in the operations and machinations of the Nazi regime. He uses this knowledge to create a realistic and frightening world in which we all could be living. Recommended. BOMC selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/92.
- C. Christopher Pavek, National Economic Research Assocs. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
There are no happy novels set in Berlin, but Harris (Selling Hitler, 1986, on the diaries forgery) has managed a novel that dances on Hitler's grave with amusing success. Naturally, the whole book is entirely depressing, depression being the keynote of Hitlerian fantasias; its leading tones were struck earlier by Orwell's 1984 and le Carr‚'s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Harris's novel is set in 1964--Germany has won WW II, and this is the weekend of Hitler's 75th birthday, with huge celebrations ready to blow. After defeating Russia, Germany has formed a European trading bloc with 12 Western nations; German is the second language in all schools; everyone drives German cars, watches German TV, and so on. Switzerland alone is neutral, afloat on the Wehrmacht's stalemate in its cold war with the US. Tying in with Hitler's birthday is the announcement that--to reinforce d‚tente between the two countries--US President Joseph P. Kennedy has been invited to Berlin. But that d‚tente is threatened by the murders of two retired high officials, and Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei, lands the job of tracking down the killers. March is divorced and disaffected, and his ten-year-old son hates him for not being a super-Nazi like himself. Just as March is getting ahead in the case, he is taken off it by Globus, a top pig in the Gestapo. But March is too far in to stop. And he's fallen in with the beautiful American journalist ``Charlie'' Maguire, a smart and feisty woman who's always ready to prick March's Nazi chauvinism. The big secret: March has stumbled on the great Nazi coverup of the gas chambers, with ghastly proofs of it hidden in a numbered Swiss account. Farsighted readers know that massive dystopian evil such as Winston Smith faced in 1984 can provide no happy end. But only a Schweinehund wouldn't like this springtime for Hitler, with its waltzes through the Holocaust to the tunes of Leh r's The Merry Widow. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A puff read about something very serious.
By Amazon Customer
"Meh", is a good word for this book.
It's entertaining, but not very good.
You're in a world where Germany won WWII, and it's not nearly as cool as "The Man in the High Castle".
SPOILERS:
Strap in for a moderately thrilling plot, where you constantly forget which generic German guy is which, and the not so stunning conclusion that the Nazis killed the Jews that everyone knew they were "displacing".
Cringe as the main character beds a much younger and better looking woman, in a cliche, could-only-be-written-by-a-middle-aged-man, style plot.
Wonder if it's terrible that such a frothy book about something so terrible exists?
Or just save yourself some money and watch the better written Man in the High Castle. Seriously, that show is awesome.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Incredible read!! Masterfully written!
By Bill L.
Historically quite accurate, which helps keep the story grounded and the mystery/conspiracy thrilling. The best part of this text is the misdirection in the plot. At face value, the story is thrilling and fast paced, with no filler. Without giving anything away, only at the end (through hindsight) did I realize the signs that lead to where things ended up. Masterfully well written, if you've heard of Robert Harris, start here!!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
What a quandary!
By WB, Zeno
Where to begin? Well, the book is alt his: in it, Germany won WW2 (although she's still fighting a lower-intensity war with the USSR somewhere along what would seem from a map to be the Volga, although a casual remark in p. 18 mentions "American -backed Soviet guerrillas east of the Urals", and there's another reference to "the dull struggle with the Reds on the Urals Front" in p. 84), developed the atomic bomb roughly at the same time as the US and ICBMs much earlier, and controls Europe trough a German-dominated European Community based on a Rome Treaty (in the West she has formally annexed only Luxembourg, and of course Alsace-Lorraine). Goering died in 1951, Himmler in 1962 (his successor is Heydrich, not assassinated in the Protectorate in this timeline, and rumored to be slated for succeeding the 75-year-old Hitler). Basically, the US having defeated Japan, and China being apparently a shambles, this is a bipolar world (German-led Europe and the US), complete with a nuclear stalemate and a Cold War (whence a to-be-held-summit, to seek détente).
Against this backdrop, on April 14, 1964, six days before Hitler's birthday celebrations and with the US President Joseph Kennedy (yes, the father) coming to Berlin in September for summit, a man is found drowned in the Havel. The case is investigated by Reichskriminalpolizei Investigator Xavier March, and what follows leads him to the realization, at the end of the book, that the Holocaust has indeed taken place: in Germany the official line is that "the Jews were sent East", but nevertheless mothers threaten rebellious sons with a "behave or you'll go up the chimney".
To say more is useless, as the book from then on becomes a mix of PP and thriller interspeded with seamlessly integrated flashbacks that permit you to partially reconstruct what has happened between mid-1942 (it's clear that the Germans captured Stalingrad and their summer Caucasus offensive succeeded) and the present murder, and then proceeds, always in a deftly depicted rigidly dictatorial police-state Greater German Empire, and at a stedily accelerating pace, to its (I would say open and deeply moving) conclusion.
I enjoyed the book enormously: for anyone intererested enough in the history of the period, finding names like Globocnic (who for example is mentioned -with a different spelling- once by Jodl, I think, to Hitler as a "real scoundrel", in Guderian's "Panzer Leader"), or allusions to episodes like the theft of Veit Stoss' altarpiece from Cracow's (Krakau in the book) Church of Our Lady, is to become aware of some as it were unknown intellectual friend (in this case Harris) who shares your interests, at least as far as having done -for a non-historian- an enormous amount of research, and with whom you could talk and learn from. For me, that's the key of my delight in the story: the amount of subtle details of a period that fascinates me. As for the purely PP part of the plot, that is, if you abstract from its subject matter, I agree there are some technically better books around, but not many with such a degree of suspense: this one is a real page turner.
Just to give you an idea of my tastes, I've read part of one of Turtledove's alt his series (the one that begins with "So Few Remain", in which the South wins the Civil War), but gave up after the 3rd or 4th volume ("Walk in Hell" or "Blood and Iron", I don't remember the titles, I gave them away): I just wasn't interested in the myriad subplots involving ordinary people, and there was too little macrohistory. I also read the first two books of a WW2 series in which the Japanese sink three US aircraft carriers and occupy Pearl Harbour, but loose the war anyway, which however lasts two years longer (I've forgotten the author's and the books' names). I quit for the same reason. But Harris' book is in a completely different league from them, and also from the scores of more detailed military alt his of the European theater of operations, Eastern or Western (by, say, Tsouras and his colleagues or imitators), or the fewer fully professional mil his, although for me they are more interesting than Tutledove's & alia microhistorical approch as they are more concise. It may seem a contradiction to downplay Turtledove's microhistory and praise Harris' subtle detail, but in the former events just happen, whereas in the latter there is a reason, a cause and and a fierce determination. Also, "Fatherland" is told in a very old-fashioned way: the good guys are clearly set apart from the bad ones, and there are no antiheroes; in the others, alt his is like real his, full of greynesses, contradictions and ambiguities.
Charlene Vickers and Justine Cardello have written however thoughtful one-star reviews, and they have valid points. So what's happening?
(1) As for the improbability of Charlotte Maguire's being a female "star reporter" in 1964 (not 1967 as CV writes), I agree it's a weakness in the plot. However, Maguire does say that nobody has heard of her agency, World European Features, and that it's an outfit with just two men with a telex machine in an office in the wrong side of town, and that she was picked as correspondent because she was the only one that could get a German visa. Besides, her father was a Liberal Undersecretary of State, so she must have got some political education and known some people. This doesn't detract from the value of CV's point, but shows Harris was aware of the problem and tried to minimize it.
(2) I think what they (and other reviewers) say about the Holocaust being impossible to conceal is debatable; it may be so in our world (but wait for the current crisis to deepen and the depression to really bite; then we'll see a dramatic increase in the revisionists' numbers). Remember also that even now most (I think) Muslims genuinely believe it didn't happen, as Turks to this day sincerely believe that the Armenian genocide is a fabrication. And European liberal intellectuals believed Stalin's gulags were a Western propaganda invention until the secret Khrushev speech. And how many US citizens are aware of the atrocities committed, say, in Vietnam? I'm not saying that they were due to a genocidal policy, but they were committed -and silenced-. How many are aware of Chomski's existence (again, I'm not saying that he's right, but his views about the US deserve a national debate). And how widespread was the American reaction to the French atrocities during the war for Algerian independence? And how many know that presumably 2 million Germans died when 16 million of them were expelled -whether justly or unjustly is beside the point- from their former homes? My point is, you CAN fool most of the people most of the time except in basic matters such as whether they have enough to eat or can repay their mortgage. I think media coverage determines what is considered to be PC or outrageous, independently of what's really going on. And this in our world! Think of another in which Germany had won the war! Everybody could have suspected (and did so) all right, but where would the aerial reconaissance planes have flown from? How many outside people would the Polish partisans have been able to contact? Who would have been admitted to the four Eastern Komissariats to count how many Jews, if any, really remained? And where would the archival evidence of the Nuremberg Trials have come from? Reread p. 206 of the MMP edition, where March questions Charlotte about the real fate of the "vanished" millions of Jews. The only info available in an mildly anti-semitic US comes from some half-deranged fugitives beyond the Urals, but the German Ambassador flatly denies their claims. "Pure propaganda", he says (and the Germans, after the British entirely false construction of the child-maiming, nun-raping, village-burning "Hun" image of WW1, had every reason to distrust foreign propaganda). Besides, deep inside, as is expressed several times, everybody more or less knows (i.e. Fiebes, in page 96: "A lot of [racial legislation] refers to Jews, and the Jews, as we know" -he gave a wink- "have all gone east"). And, most inportant of all, nobody, except a few very decent people like Marsh and Maguire, really cares, as Charlotte herself says. As for the US Jews not receiving news of/from their relatives, the Nazis never kept their racial laws secret: it was common knowledge that Jews were grossly abused, interned in concentration camps, deported, etc. The only secret was their systematic mass extermination. In our timeline, 2 million Gypsies were murdered alongside a maximum of 6 million Jews (not 14 million, as JC writes). Have you ever heard anything about it, dear average reader?
So I think that point, while controversial, shouldn't be considered an important flaw in the plot.
(3) Both CV and JC say that the characters are cutouts, flat, they don'e evoke any empathy. Well, that's a personal opinion. I really cared for March (although rather less for Maguire), Nebe didn't seem to be such a detestable german, and I even detected a mellowing of the regime in Krebs, the new-generation "gone soft" Nazi. De gustibus non est disputandum.
(4) Some other reviewers write that this story is a bad rehash of Orwell's "1984". Though to be compared with such a masterpiece would be no demerit, IMO Orwell's is a deeply philosophical novel (for me, its most important parts are the chapters of Goldstein's mythical book), whereas Harris' is an unabashedly alt his thriller, and nothing else. They belong to two entirely different genres. Furthermore, it's true that Orwell took his inspiration from Nazi Germany and the USSR, but his was a wild extrapolation towards power gone mad, whereas Harris pictures an earthy state governed by corrupt leaders and already in the process of being further corrupted by "softness" and boredom, March's son attitude and deeds notwithstanding.
(5) There are some inconsistencies (as for example the timing of Kennedy's visit, which at times seem inminent although it's 5 months away), but they are minor.
Summary: if you're like me, (definitely) buy and (hopefully) enjoy this book as much as I did a few years ago.
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