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	Gateway: Review of "Fatherland"
		Fatherland is an alternate history novel about that most popular of alternate history subjects - a Nazi victory in the Second World War.
		I would, in fact, go so far as to say it is one of the best alternate history novels I have read (its success as a "mainstream" novel attests to the fact that it is good enough in terms of story to appeal to people who are not specifically fans of alternate history).
		Fatherland doesn't spend too much time on the details of the victory, although it is mentioned that Germany developed both the atomic bomb, and rockets which could carry an atomic warhead to New York city, forcing a peace with the Americans.
	www.alternatehistory.com /gateway/reviews/Fatherland-review.html (682 words)

	Fatherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drawing from the Nazis' usage of the term "Vaterland", the direct English translation "fatherland" featured in news reports associated with Nazi Germany and in domestic anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II.
		Fatherland, an alternate history novel by Robert Harris.
		For The Fatherland, a complation album by white nationalist duo Prussian Blue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatherland (358 words)

	Fatherland
		Fatherland is the nation of one's "fathers" or "forefathers." It can be viewed as a nationalist concept, insofar as it relates to nations.
		Groups that refer to their homeland as a "fatherland" (or rather, cognates of this English word in their languages), or, arguably, associate it primarily with paternal concepts include:
		"Fatherland" is also the title of a thriller novel by the English writer and journalist, Robert Harris[?], which doubles as a work of virtual history and postulates a world in which Nazi Germany was triumphant as a consequence of World War II.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fa/Fatherland.html (269 words)

	fatherland - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fatherland is the nation of one's fathers or forefathers.
		Fatherland is a bestselling 1992 thriller novel by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris which doubles as a work of alternate history or counterfactual fiction, based on the premise of a...
		Fatherland on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
	encarta.msn.com /fatherland.html (173 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Fatherland
		Fatherland is one of those "What If" movies that leaves you wishing the moviemakers had just left the entire subject alone.
		It's based on the novel of the same name, and it's distinctive in that it's the only film we've seen in which the guy wearing the swastika is the good guy.
		Fatherland's main problem is that no one really seems to care about anything that happens, either in the plot or in their acting performances.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/fatherland.html (725 words)

	Fatherland -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Use of the word "fatherland" (or rather, its cognates in languages like German and Russian--though Russia also has "motherland") certainly does not by itself imply that anyone using it is an ethnic nationalist or even slightly supports ethnic nationalist views.
		''Fatherland'' is a 1992 thriller novel by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris which doubles as a work of virtual history and postulates a world in which Nazi Germany was triumphant in World War II.
		In the novel, Germany is preparing in the early 1960s for Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday celebration.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/53/fatherland.html (1243 words)

	Fatherland (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the novel's version of history, the German armies on the Eastern Front are stopped at the gates of Moscow.
		The maps, supported by parts of the novel, display the size of the Reich, stretching from Alsace-Lorraine (Westmark) in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east.
		The main protagonists of each novel (Xavier March and Winston Smith) are both disillusioned, middle-aged, middle-class members of society who work for the ruling political party and appear to adhere to the party's principles, but secretly despise their governments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatherland_(novel) (4814 words)

	Fatherland. - book reviews National Review - Find Articles
		Robert Harris is described on the jacket of Fatherland as "a columnist for the London Sunday Times." In fact, he is an ex-columnist for the Sunday Times.
		The most celebrated novels of the latter kind, such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and When the Kissing Had to Stop, were set, at the time of writing, in an all too possible future, against which, and against a political fashion tending toward which, the author sought to warn his readers.
		He is doomed, naturally (this being an ambitious novel, it cannot have a happy ending), but the girl escapes, promising that she will tell all to that ultimate arbiter of truth, even in an alternative world, the New York Times.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v44/ai_12642347 (891 words)

	Exploring Dystopia: Fatherland
		Personally, I think Fatherland is a brilliant dystopian novel and of the same dignity as Nineteen Eighty-four in some respects.
		The consequence of this ever-present and brutal competition was that the Nazi leaders were surrounded by fawners and yes-men, bristling with vanity and ambition, prepared to defame and betray.
		The power struggles in the novel are by no means exaggerations; they were often triggered by simple envy and desire for vengeance.
	hem.passagen.se /replikant/fatherland.htm (3004 words)

	michael specter--review--archangel
		So we have to be at least a little thankful to Robert Harris, who in his new novel, ''Archangel,'' has given those of us who retain some literary nostalgia for the Evil Empire exactly what we have been waiting for: a thriller about the bad old days set in the deep, gray present.
		In his previous work, most notably his 1992 novel ''Fatherland,'' in which Hitler triumphed and Nazism lives, Harris mapped out as his special terrain the effects that the 20th century's great villains have had on the world; I am sorry to report it's a subject that never seems to lose its resonance.
		The characters are led across the vast snows of the Russian winter by the unknown hands of an extremist with a penchant for collecting 30's memorabilia.
	www.michaelspecter.com /times/1999/1999_02_14_rev_harris.html (867 words)

	MediaCircus.net: Fatherland Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		And then there is Robert Harris' best-selling novel from 1992, "Fatherland", which formed the basis for one of the few films of the alternate history genre, an HBO movie of the same name from 1994.
		Unfortunately, "Fatherland" is one of those films that fail to capture the essence of the original book, eschewing much of the meticulous historical, social, and political detail to create a poorly paced film that narrowly keeps its focus as a strict murder mystery.
		In addition, the moralizing in the big-budget "Fatherland" is often spoon-fed in a heavy-handed manner (particularly some banal dialogue that Hauer utters), compared to the approach of the much more thrifty "It Happened Here", in which the script which gives the audience enough credit to 'read between the lines'.
	www.mediacircus.net /fatherland.html (1040 words)

	Amazon.com: Fatherland: Books: Robert Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fatherland's plot revolves around Xavier March, a former U-boat skipper who has joined the German police, which has been under SS control since the mid-1930s.
		The second thing about "Fatherland", and what sets it apart from Ludlum's works, is that it takes place in a masterfully realized alternate past in which the Germans are years removed from having won WWII.
		This novel by Robert Harris is a masterpiece on many different levels - historical fiction, mystery, detective story, political thriller, and alternate history.
	www.amazon.com /Fatherland-Robert-Harris/dp/0061006629 (1838 words)

	Fatherland
		The protagonist of Fatherland, Xavier March, an homicide detective with Berlin Kriminalpolizei - the Kripo, the lowest ranking branch of the SS - is drawn into this geopolitical agenda while investigating the murder of one Josef Buhler.
		The personal development of Xavier March through the novel, from an "asocial," the 1960s German term for someone who obviously isn't dedicated to Nazi beliefs, but otherwise is hardly worth paying attention to, into an enemy of the state who lots of bad-tempered people would like to get their hand on, is well done.
		This novel doesn't end by promising to penalize the Nazis for the evil they have committed.
	www.szoraster.com /AlternateHistory/Fatherland.html (1479 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pompeii: Books: Robert Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Other writers have placed narratives in the shadow of this most famous of volcanic cataclysms, but Harris triumphantly ensures that his characters' individual dramas are not dwarfed by implacable nature; Marcus is a vividly drawn hero: complex, conflicted and a canny synthesis of modern and ancient mindsets.
		The main character of this riveting novel is Marcus Attilus Primus whose job is trying to convince Pliny the Elder, a Roman admiral, to give him a ship to sail to Pompeii and find the source of an aqueduct problem.
		The only flaw I felt with this novel was that (approaching it as a historical fiction fan and being the first of Harris' books I have read) its 'new' style made it, initially, all the more intriguing and readable.
	www.amazon.ca /Pompeii-Robert-Harris/dp/0099282615 (2249 words)

	A novel, Germany's past, and the dilemmas of civilized Germans Contemporary Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A telling new case in the history of Germany's difficulties to come to terms with its past is the country's reaction to Robert Harris' best-selling novel Fatherland.
		I then comment on the novel's references to Germany's role in the Europe of today, since Robert Harris' equating of Hitler's occupied Europe with the present European Community has very much contributed to the book's rejection in Germany, and is indeed the most debatable feature of the novel.
		Fatherland, a fast-moving, first-rate detective story, has been a wild success in the English speaking world.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1546_v265/ai_16514188 (999 words)

	Mystery Guide - Fatherland by Robert Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fatherland is a fine example of the "alternate history" novel, where the action is set in a past or present that might have been, if things had gone slightly differently.
		Eventually, with the help of an American journalist, he begins to learn things about the Nazi regime that are truly incendiary (although in our reality we have known about them for fifty years or so).
		Fatherland is a fast-paced and effective thriller, but there are some problems here.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkHarrisFatherland.html (382 words)

	Fatherland (novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There, the German Consulate in Zurich tried to recruit him for the Fatherland army.
		Fatherland is the title of a 1992 thriller novel by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris which doubles as a work of virtual history and postulates a world in which Nazi Germany was triumphant as a consequence of World War II.
		A TV movie of the book was made in 1994 by HBO, and starred Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/f/fa/fatherland__novel_.html (101 words)

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		A gripping World War II mystery novel with a cryptographic twist, Enigma's hero is Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician working as a member of the team struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code.
		Jericho's own struggles include nerve-wracking mental labor, the mysterious disappearance of a former girlfriend, the suspicions of his co-workers within the paranoid high-security project, and the certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy.
		His first novel, Fatherland (1992), was the most successful first novel by a British author in the past twenty years and was published in 18 countries.
	filmlover2.tripod.com /enigmanovel_m.htm (4233 words)

	FATHERLAND
		While many people may not think of Robert Harris’ best-selling novel Fatherland as science fiction, it definitely is. After all, its alternate universe theme based on the question "what if Hitler had won WWII?" is the staple diet of many a sci-fi novel, perhaps most notably Philip K. Dick’s The Man In The High Castle.
		Whereas Dick explored his favourite hang-up of "what is reality?" in The Man In The High Castle, Harris’ Fatherland is perhaps the best invocation of what it would have been like to live in a Europe conquered by the Nazis.
		However, while the made for cable television movie based on the novel isn’t an extreme case of "how not to adapt a novel to the big screen," Fatherland remains a disappointment.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /fatherland.html (307 words)

	Large Print Reviews - Fatherland - A Book Review
		Robert Harris' novel, Fatherland, is set in the year 1964 and in a world where a Kennedy is in the White House and Hitler is about to celebrate his 75th birthday.
		But be forewarned, this is a depressing novel, which it should be, considering the setting and the people involved in the story.
		Born 1925: A Novel of Youth, by Vera Brittain.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /fatherland.html (428 words)

	BookClubs.ca \| Books \| Archangel by Robert Harris
		Present-day Russia is the setting for this stunning new novel from Robert Harris, author of the bestsellers Fatherland and Enigma.
		Archangel combines the imaginative sweep and dark suspense of Fatherland with the meticulous historical detail of Enigma.
		His novels have sold more than six million copies and been translated into thirty languages.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0099282410 (303 words)

	Uchronia: The Alternate History List
		Sometimes a novel is secret history because it describes secret events never revealed to the public.
		More subtle is the "generic" historical novel, which may present a somewhat altered version of events, typically one in which a fictional character is present at or active in some great event.
		If you are searching for and can't find a particular short story, or maybe even a novel, check other entries by the same author to see if it was retitled or included in a larger work.
	www.uchronia.net /intro.html (2312 words)

	Exploring Dystopia: Categorisation of dystopias
		This kind of dystopia is rather rare, which is surprising: it may become an imminent problem in the near future.
		This is basically the only dystopian category in which the stories explicitly may take place in the present or the past.
		This genre is debatedly one of the most innovative dystopian genres nowadays, but have received a remarkably small amount of attention, all too small in my opinion.
	hem.passagen.se /replikant/dystopia_categorisation.htm (2042 words)

	fatherland - OneLook Dictionary Search
		fatherland : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
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	www.onelook.com /?w=fatherland (198 words)

	Book Review: Fatherland by Robert Harris
		It is an incredible novel that depicts what life would be like if Germany had won World War II.
		This novel transplants the reader into the mind of a lonely Berlin detective as his investigation takes him from danger to love to violence in a whirlwind of suspense.
		Fatherland is a stunning novel that will keep the reader engrossed from cover to cover.
	www.teenink.com /Past/1997/8992.html (228 words)

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