V2
On the brink of defeat, Hitler orders ten thousand V2 missiles, with which he hopes to annihilate the city of London and win the war.
The narrative unfolds on both sides of the conflict: the German...
HARRIS, Robert
Precipice
The novel is set in England in 1914 and 1915, shortly before and after the outbreak of the First World War. Venetia Stanley, 26 years old (from an aristocratic, intelligent, bored, and ruthless family), has...
Act of Oblivion
Robert Harris is a very successful British author of historical fiction. The theme of Act of Oblivion is England after the fall of the Puritan Commonwealth in 1660. Nearly all the characters are...
Fatherland
This is a police thriller set in 1964 in an alternative universe in which the Nazis won World War II. Queen Elizabeth II lives in exile in Canada and her uncle Edward VIII sits on the throne in England. A...
Munich
A prelude close to the invasion of Poland by the German Armed Forces, which gave rise to World War II, was the conference in Munich in September 1938. Held a year earlier, this meeting with Hitler,...
Conclave
The Pope has died suddenly. The different groups that aspire to the papal throne struggle to gain sufficient support among the cardinals: traditionalists, modernists, Africans, Latinos. Cardinal Lomeli, who...
Imperium
The novel, the first of a trilogy, narrate Cicero's early years, his climbing to be a Consul, and some of his most important cases. It is very well written, describing the political plots of the Pre...
Dictator
This novel finishes the trilogy of the author dedicated to Cicero showing his years of exile, the civil war, and the first stages of the ascent to power of Caesar Augustus. It is well documented although...
An Officer and a Spy
Paris, 1895: am army officer George Picqart, watches as a conficted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island.
Limited...