Hitler''s Peace
(PHILIP KERR)
Since concluding his acclaimed Berlin Noir trilogy, author Philip Kerr has
explored speculative fiction, mystery, science fiction and even the young adult
genre. He returns to WWII-era Europe with Hitler''s
Peace, an intense and masterfully duplicitous story that revolves around
the Big Three Conference involving Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and
Josef Stalin in Teheran in 1943.
After losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the debacle at Stalingrad
and being overwhelmed all along the eastern front, Hitler and his Nazi brain
trust know that Germany
cannot possibly win the war. Secret Peace negotiations have begun, but as FDR
says with understatement, It''s a delicate situation. Things become even more
complicated when war atrocities committed by the Soviet
Union come to light, specifically a mass grave containing the
bodies of 4,000 Polish officers and a letter describing the nightmarish deaths
of more than 50,000 German POWs.
Two focal characters in the unfolding drama are Willard Mayer, a
Harvard-educated philosopher with more than a few skeletons in his closet, and
Walter Schellenberg, a general in Hitler''s SS serving as the head of Foreign
Intelligence. Mayer, who is working for the Office of Strategic Services as a German
Intelligence analyst, is inexplicably called upon by FDR to accompany him to
Teheran. But as the meeting draws nearer, so does the chance that his past
political indiscretions will be uncovered. Schellenberg, meanwhile, has found
out about the top-secret meeting and is planning to end the war once and for
all.
Masterfully blending fiction and fact?and replete with espionage, intrigue
and clandestine military adventure?Hitler''s Peace will not only appeal
to WWII aficionados but also to fans of suspense novelists like Clancy, Ludlum
and DeMille.
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