false <![CDATA[Fatherland]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170460267m/56842.jpg 56842 28 It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the FÜhrer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy. Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March -- a disillusioned but talented investigation of a corpse washed up on the shore of a lake. When a dead man turns out to be a high-ranking Nazi commander, the Gestapo orders March off the case immediately. Suddenly other unrelated deaths are anything but routine. Now obsessed by the case, March teams up with a beautiful, young American journalist and starts asking questions...dangerous questions. What they uncover is a terrifying and long-concealed conspiracy of such astonding and mind-numbing terror that is it certain to spell the end of the Third Reich -- if they can live long enough to tell the world about it. 405136 1992 Fatherland total:1142|5:229|4:474|3:360|2:69|1:10| 1142 4269 1583 135 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 05:51:22 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 06:01:07 -0700 2008
The great thing about Fatherland is that Robert Harris doesn't try to do too much with the counterfactual history. It's definitely there, of course, but the re...more...]]> 3 1 false true Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 08:54:11 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 17 11:43:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 08:43:57 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 15:11:21 -0700 2007 Simple Genius, this is the reason I don’t read more fiction. Even the historical fiction nature of the book, (Germany wins WWII, it’s a different world, yada, yada, yada—you can read more of the storyline in the reviews others have written) couldn’t save it for m...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 08 19:34:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 19:34:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Mon Aug 31 13:59:37 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 14:13:38 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 12:36:52 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 12:58:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 08:31:27 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 08:35:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 02:48:44 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 03:08:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 20:17:40 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 20:33:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 11 07:59:19 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 08:01:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 08:52:01 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 09:12:03 -0800 2008
March draws a case of an unknown drowned man, a former high Nazi official, and...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 07:42:30 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 07:42:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Wed Aug 26 20:44:08 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 20:49:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 04:28:33 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 04:35:27 -0800 2009 Gorky Park, with its disillusioned detective operating within an authoritarian regime--except that the regime here is an alternative history in which Germany won WWII. As another reviewer points out, the emphasis is more on the plot than on the alternative history, which for me is part o...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Tue Jul 28 15:39:03 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:50:00 -0700 2009
This is a quite remarkable book which led to a film adaptation (featuring The Hitcher himself Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson - Queenie in Blackadder II).

The premise is based on an alterna...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 27 04:47:26 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 12:48:29 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 09:05:38 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 02:42:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Apr 04 08:21:45 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 08:22:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 25 13:46:06 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 14:24:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 23:12:44 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 07:43:35 -0700 2008
Set in an alternative history, which has forked from our own circa 1942, Hitler now has the run of most of Europe and Eastern Russia, an treat...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=56842