Munich
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4.1 • 34 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
FROM THE BESTSELLING 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?
Customer Reviews
Pronunciation of ‘Munich’!
An otherwise excellent audiobook somewhat spoilt by the peculiar way in which the narrator refers to Munich. Instead of “mew-nick”, ‘nick’ becomes a phlegmy, back of the throat ‘ccggh’ sound. Why the affectation I don’t know? To make it sound more ‘German’?! Ridiculous, as Munich is the English form of “München”- which sounds completely different! Given the obvious frequency with which this word is read in the text, it’s more than a little irritating, especially as the narrator’s pronunciation of German is actually pretty spot on…
This book is missing a section
Apple / Audible - this book is sold as unabridged but there’s clearly a section missing - the bit where Chamberlain meets Hartmann in the hotel (I think)