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Munich

By: Robert Harris
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Summary

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
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A Piece For Our Time?

To an extent you know what you're going to get with Robert Harris's historical fiction. There's always going to be a strong feeling of time and place based on thoroughly detailed research. You're going to find characters given real depth whether they be genuine historical personalities or the the fictional ones that Harris uses to carry the story. All of that is true here in a novel that I found highly satisfying to listen to even if it didn't hit the heights of excitement.

There is a dual aspect to the story in that two old college friends find themselves on opposite sides of the conference with both playing their own high stakes games. The book provides a brief but extremely important episode in their lives and the history of Europe. To me it felt as much like a docudrama as a fictional novel as the plot stuck so closely to historical fact.

The narration by David Rintoul is steady with no attempt to give the non-British characters any kind of national accents. It feels entirely appropriate to the text with perhaps the only element of real theatre coming late on with some of Hitler's outbursts.

Harris is clearly scratching some kind of itch here. He is returning to the subject of a documentary he made almost 30 years ago and he portrays Chamberlain with considerably more sympathy than many historians. The quality of the writing is, as you would expect from this author, is extremely high. I don't think it's the most thrilling of thrillers but it is a good story with a very authentic feeling atmosphere to it.

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Takes us heart-stoppingly back in time

Robert Harris writes with his inimitable fluency and ease, effortlessly he carries his reader with him through a very tense moment in our history. Narration is first class. Terrific book, and terrific audio book especially!

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Couldn't stop listening

Excellent account of events before the outbreak of WW2, with a storyline convincingly woven in to them.

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a topic well covered

excellent historical insight into period of time leading up to world two and the reality of the time's

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Superb narration of an excellent book

A gripping fictional rendering of a huge historical moment. The narration is first class - one of best performances on an audiobook I’ve heard.

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David Rintoul reading Robert Harris - a real pleasure

After having read as well as listened to An Officer and a Spy, I was delighted to find that David Rintoul was also going to be the narrator for Munich. He is an excellent narrator (I highly recommend his readings of Donna Leon’s works). There is something about David Rintoul’s narration that, to my ears, lends itself wonderfully to the characters depicted by Robert Harris. As for the story itself as ever with Robert Harris I feel not only more educated about a fascinating time in history, but also very entertained and captivated in the process. Another tour de force which was well worth the wait.

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excellent

Wasn't sure to starr because we know what happened at Munich historically but really gripping

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A fascinating insight...

Into the origins is WW2. I find Robert Harris had to get into initially but always well worth preservering

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Exquisite

I Loved this book and from the very 1st chapter I was absorbed into the late 1930's pre World war. With all the lethal tooing and froing that was so true back then.
The writing is like reading a history book as was the accuracy of it.
Finally and not least the narration by David Rintoul is excellent, this book really is a must read for all that are curious about those times.

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Beautifully read story

Set in 1938, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in WWII and the Third Reich. A great story, suspenseful even though we all know the eventual outcome. Superb reading by David Rintoul, especially the contrast between the quietly spoken English characters and the more forceful German ones, including Hitler. Very enjoyable listening - I will seek out other audiobooks read by him.

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