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Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â?¢ From the bestselling author of V2 and Fatherlandâ??a WWII-era spy thriller set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Now a Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons.
With this electrifying novel about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, "Harris has brought history to life with exceptional skill" (The Washington Post).
Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Officeâ??and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course.
And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importanceâ??here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladierâ??at the heart of an electrifying, unput… (meer)
'We dienen ons er altijd van bewust te zijn dat wat nu in het verleden ligt ooit in de toekomst heeft gelegen.' - F.W. Maitland, historicus (1850-1906)
'We hadden in 1938 de oorlog moeten beginnen [...] september 1938 zou het gunstigste tijdstip zijn geweest.' - Adolf Hitler, februari 1945
Opdracht
Voor Matilda
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Shortly before one o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday 27 September 1938, Mr Hugh Legat of His Majesty's Diplomatic Service was shown to his table beside one of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Ritz Restaurant in London, ordered a half-bottle of 1921 Dom Perignon he could not afford, folded his copy of The Times to page seventeen, and began to read for the third time the speech that has been delivered the night before in Berlin's Sportpalast by Adolf Hitler.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
She didn't reply. He picked up his suitcase and went out into the night. Someone in Smith Square was letting off rockets. In the gardens he could hear cries of delight. The old buildings gleamed fitfully in the cascades of falling sparks and then returned to darkness.
Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â?¢ From the bestselling author of V2 and Fatherlandâ??a WWII-era spy thriller set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Now a Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons.
With this electrifying novel about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, "Harris has brought history to life with exceptional skill" (The Washington Post).
Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Officeâ??and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course.
And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importanceâ??here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladierâ??at the heart of an electrifying, unput
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