Fatherland

by Robert Harris | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0099263815 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingearthcaroleannewing of Falkirk, Scotland United Kingdom on 12/31/2015
Buy from one of these Booksellers:
Amazon.com | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon DE | Amazon FR | Amazon IT | Bol.com
This book is in the wild! This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by wingearthcaroleannewing from Falkirk, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, December 31, 2015
Welcome to BookCrossing!

Thank you for picking up this book. If you’re new to BookCrossing and find this book and this site (www.bookcrossing.com), please make a journal entry to let me know that this book has found a good home with you. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join.

I hope you'll join BookCrossing (doesn't cost anything to join!) and if you do, please consider using me, earthcaroleanne, as your referring member. When you’ve finished reading this book and are ready to send it on its way again, make a journal entry if you are giving or sending this book to a known person, or a release note if you are leaving it “in the wild” again for anyone to catch. Then watch its journey. You’ll be alerted by e mail each time someone makes another journal entry. And it’s confidential (you are known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free.

Enjoy the site, the book and hopefully the BookCrossing community. If you’re already a BookCrossing member, thank you for picking up this book.

Happy BookCrossings!

Journal Entry 2 by wingearthcaroleannewing at Falkirk, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, December 31, 2015
April 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible consipracy is starting to unravel...

What would the world be like if Germany had indeed won the Second World War? Robert Harris has created a world in which the USA and Germany are the two remaining superpowers locked in a cold war.
The story follows the life of a disillusioned police investigator in Berlin who stumbles into a deadly murder case which eventually reveals the involvement of powerful high ranking Nazi officials and state secrets surrounding the Holocaust. Imagine a world where you can trust nobody, where every room and phone may be bugged, where photocopiers are strictly controlled and where modern art, alcohol, smoking and even religion are severely frowned upon. If you can imagine such a dreadful world, you are in Robert Harris's Berlin in the sixties.

This book is certainly fascinating, most people think of `what might have been' at one time or another,

Journal Entry 3 by wingearthcaroleannewing at Wrexham, Wales United Kingdom on Saturday, January 2, 2016

Released 8 yrs ago (1/2/2016 UTC) at Wrexham, Wales United Kingdom

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Off as a little RABCK

Journal Entry 4 by jalna at Wrexham, Wales United Kingdom on Friday, January 8, 2016
Thank you so much for this ! I only added it to my Wishlist comparatively recently, when I was wanting to build up the list a little and remembered it. I have heard the book mentioned on literary radio programmes a few times and thought "that sounds like an intriguing plot! I might read that" and then forgotten about it again. I forget the exact circumstances which gave rise to my doing so, but I said to someone "I've quite a fancy to read Fatherland" and remembered saying it when editing my Wishlist.

It is next up on my TBR pile...

Journal Entry 5 by jalna at Wrexham, Wales United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 17, 2016
I really wasn't sure whether I was going to like this book or not. I don't usually read thrillers and probably wouldn't have chosen it except that I had heard it mentioned a few times and thought I'd like to try it. Somehow I'd got it into my head it was going to be set in England and the fact that it was set in Germany would normally have been another off-put for me, but in the event I found the story quite gripping all the way through. Quite a difficult read in some respects because one couldn't comfort oneself with the thought that it was "only make-believe" because so much of what it portrayed was all too shockingly true. And what was made up could well have become the truth.

Journal Entry 6 by jalna at Wrexham, Wales United Kingdom on Monday, March 21, 2016

Released 8 yrs ago (3/21/2016 UTC) at Wrexham, Wales United Kingdom

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Sent to another BookCrosser who has been wishing for it.

Journal Entry 7 by redfox5 at Sandhurst, Berkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, March 24, 2016
Thank you for sending me a wishlist book :)

Journal Entry 8 by redfox5 at Camberley, Surrey United Kingdom on Thursday, October 28, 2021
I did initially start very into this book, the picture that is painted if Germany won the War was bleak. It was a chilling background for a thriller. Then life got in the way and I've struggled to read much at a time, not the books fault. I also struggled with the Nazi ranks as I don't have much knowledge of that,

I also feel incredibly thick as I just assumed everyone living in this world would know about what happened to the Jews. I mean how could you hide something like that for long? But it seems like it was kept very secret, so I was surprised when this turned out to be the secret that SS members were being killed for.

It was pretty horrible reading about Luther's visit to Auschwitz, I felt March's horror when he learned about what his socks had been made from and the scale of what had been happening there.

This was a good thriller, I wish I could have given it more of my attention.

Journal Entry 9 by redfox5 at Chobham Book Exchange (Phone Box) in Chobham, Surrey United Kingdom on Saturday, December 18, 2021

Released 2 yrs ago (12/18/2021 UTC) at Chobham Book Exchange (Phone Box) in Chobham, Surrey United Kingdom

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left in the phone box.

Are you sure you want to delete this item? It cannot be undone.