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pamela1221 's review for:
Fatherland
by Robert Harris
Fatherland was the first Robert Harris book that I read, it was also the first book I read that told the alternate story of life if Germany had won WWII. I loved this book the first time I read it and that didn't change on the second reading.
I think what makes this such a good story is that so much of it was fact from the German high command which are still in power in 1964. It is these factual characters and their bogeymen personas that make everything so believable. Germany that massive power that it wanted to be has come to pass. Eugenics programs implemented, a surveilled state where you have to join the party if you want to be promoted. All the horrors of the Nazi regime have come to pass but as with every society there is a restlessness there are people that are curious, people that keep asking questions and there are people that once they have the bit between their teeth will do everything to get to the answers. Xavier March is such a person. This book is a thriller of old it begs to be put on the big screen and it was but with not a lot of fanfare. 50% splat on the tomato meter. Now they could do a great job but the difference is that the WWII survivors are almost all gone and with fascism on rise again the impact of this story would be lost in a generation that is doomed to let history repeat itself.
I think what makes this such a good story is that so much of it was fact from the German high command which are still in power in 1964. It is these factual characters and their bogeymen personas that make everything so believable. Germany that massive power that it wanted to be has come to pass. Eugenics programs implemented, a surveilled state where you have to join the party if you want to be promoted. All the horrors of the Nazi regime have come to pass but as with every society there is a restlessness there are people that are curious, people that keep asking questions and there are people that once they have the bit between their teeth will do everything to get to the answers. Xavier March is such a person. This book is a thriller of old it begs to be put on the big screen and it was but with not a lot of fanfare. 50% splat on the tomato meter. Now they could do a great job but the difference is that the WWII survivors are almost all gone and with fascism on rise again the impact of this story would be lost in a generation that is doomed to let history repeat itself.