MUNICH by Robert Harris (fiction)

The excellent Robert Harris has written another well-researched and fascinating novel.  It is September 1938 and Neville Chamberlain is going to Munich to meet with Hitler in a last ditch effort to halt the inevitable war on the horizon. Hitler is about to invade Czechoslovakia, and the PM has to decide whether to turn a blind eye and perhaps save England.  The history is well known, but what would happen if there was an underground plot to assassinate Hitler at the same time by Germans who wish to save their own country from slipping into a moral quagmire.  Hugh Legat, private secretary to Chamberlain, is caught up in the affair when he meets up with an old Oxford classmate who is in the center of the intrigue. Harris handles the plot with deftness, and though we imagine we know the outcome, it is still full of suspense.  I highly recommend this book, and by the way, if you haven’t read Harris before, his books are not to be missed.