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Hitler's Peace - a novel of the Second World War (2005)
Front Cover Book Details
Genre Fiction
Subject Teheran Conference (1943) - Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 - Peace - Fiction
Publication Date 5/19/2005
Format Hardcover (9.0 x 6.4 mm)
Publisher Putnam Publishing Group
Language English
Extras Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover
Description
A stunning World War II "what if" thriller in which the fate of Europe-and of its remaining 3 million Jews-hangs in the balance. Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allied conference in Teheran will set the ground rules for their second front-and for the peace to come. Realizing that the unconditional surrender FDR has demanded will leave Germany in ruins, Hitler has put out peace feelers. (Unbeknownst to him, so has Himmler, who is ready to stage a coup in order to reach an accord.) FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate. Only Churchill refuses to listen. At the center of this high-stakes game of deals and doubledealing is Willard Mayer, an OSS operative who has been chosen by FDR to serve as his envoy. He is the perfect foil for the steamy world of deception, betrayals, and assassinations that make up the moral universe of realpolitik. A cool, self-absorbed, emotionally distant womanizer with a questionable past, Mayer has embraced the stylish philosophy of the day, in which no values are fixed. In the course of the novel, his beliefs will be put to the ultimate test. But as compelling as Mayer is, the key players in this drama-FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Hitler, as well as Himmler, Bormann, Molotov, and Schellenberg (with marvelous walk-ons by Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and Evelyn Waugh)-are astonishingly true-to-life. Hitler's Peaceis Philip Kerr in top form. With his sure hand for pacing, his firm grasp of historical detail, and his explosively creative imagination about what might have been, he has fashioned a totally convincing thinking man's thriller in the great tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene.
Personal Details
Acquire Date 6/10/2010
Condition As New
Rating 0
Links Library of Congress
Product Details
LoC Classification PR6061.E784 .H58 2005
Dewey 823.914
ISBN 9780399152696
Cover Price $26.95
No. of Pages 464
First Edition No
Rare No
Notes/Review
This enjoyable little thriller is nicely paced, and I liked the author's feel for the language of the day. I was a bit put off at first by the switching of point of view, most of the book is told third person, but for one character we get a first person account.

Good, but not great.