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    Midnight in Berlin: A Novel

    By James MacManus

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    Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West’s appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae’s hostility, seeks to compromise him in their infamous brothel. There Macrae meets and falls in love with Sara, a Jewish woman blackmailed into becoming a Nazi courtesan.

    Macrae finds himself trapped between the blind policies of his government and the dark world of betrayal and deception in Berlin. As he seeks to save the woman he loves from the brutality of the Gestapo, he defies his government and plans direct action to avert what he knows will be a global war.

    Inspired by true events and characters, James MacManus’s Midnight in Berlin is a passionate story that will leave you in awe of the human capacity for courage, sacrifice, and love set against a world on the brink of war.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 19, 2016
    ISBN9781466892132
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    Midnight in Berlin: A Novel
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    James MacManus

    James MacManus is a foreign correspondent for the 'Guardian' and the 'Daily Telegraph' and managing editor for the 'Times'. Today he is managing director of the 'Times Literary Supplement' and executive director of News International.

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    • 4/5
      Despite the somewhat melodramatic cover, this book turned out to be a carefully researched and well written story featuring Noel Macrae, a fictional military attache stationed in Britain's German embassy in 1938-1939. He is witness to the poor decisions made by Ambassador Nevile Henderson, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Chamberlain’s appeasement policies. Macrae, former sniper and hero of World War I is desperate to convince the British government to change its policy in time to keep Hitler from taking the world back to war.

      There's a secondary story line where Macrae, who is in a failing marriage, becomes involved with Sarah, a beautiful Jewish woman who is forced to work in a Berlin brothel. Reinhard Heydrich believes one of the best ways to get information from VIPs is to record their sexual encounters with Sarah for blackmail purposes. There are many factual characters intertwined with the fictional ones. One of the most interesting is William Shirer, the brilliant historian who went on to write the iconic Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

      I thought the novel did a great job of documenting the missteps of the British government during pre-war years. This was a fascinating time in history and the real life events will leave you wondering “what might have been. If you enjoy reading about this time in history, I definitely recommend giving this book a chance.
    • 4/5
      The Nazi atrocities of World War II are, of course, so well documented today that only the deliberately obtuse among us can claim ignorance of them. What so many still fail to understand, however, is how easily it all might have been avoided if only the rest of the world had not been content simply to look the other way when Adolph Hitler first began the military posturing that led to the war. In Midnight in Berlin, James MacManus explores what might have happened if only two people (British Prime Minister Sir Neville Chamberlain and the British ambassador to Berlin, Sir Nevile Henderson) had had the courage and boldness later exhibited by Chamberlain’s successor Winston Churchill. MacManus based the novel’s main character, Colonel Noel Macrae, on real life Colonel Mason-Macfarlane who was the British military attaché in Berlin during the critical years 1938 and 1939. As the novel opens, Macrae and his wife arrive at a Berlin train station early on a cold Sunday morning so that Macrae can immediately begin his duties there as British military attaché. Unfortunately for Macrae, a man who understands the importance of stopping Hitler before he can begin to march his armies across Europe, Sir Nevile Henderson, his boss, does not share his opinion. Macrae soon learns that the only war Henderson and Prime Minister Chamberlain are willing wage is one of appeasement. They are willing to pay almost any price if it means peace with Germany – and other countries do the bulk of the paying. The Gestapo takes Macrae more seriously than Henderson takes him, and hopes to neutralize Macrae by secretly filming him inside a Gestapo-run brothel known as the Salon. Fortunately, as it turns out, Macrae falls in love with Sara (a young Jewish woman forced to work at the Salon in order to keep her brother alive) who warns him of the trap before it can be sprung. And the game is on. Now it is more than just a question of whether Macrae will be able to convince the British government to change its policy in time to keep Hitler from throwing the world into another catastrophic war. He also has to find a way to get Sara away from the Gestapo and out of Germany before Hitler closes the border to Jews trying to escape what they see coming. Noel Macrae, though, has an ace up his sleeve - the same sniper rifle that he used so effectively during World War I - and he is prepared to use it against Hitler if the opportunity presents itself, no matter what Chamberlain and the rest of the British government might think about his decision. Midnight in Berlin is part thriller and part love story, but above everything else, it is an excellent piece of historical fiction that reminds the reader of how easily the course of history can be changed – for the better or for the worse. (Review Copy provided by Publisher)