The 3 best books by Robert Harris, the dark one

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A well-understood historical novel must have, in my opinion, an explicit primary intention of entertainment. Using fiction as an indoctrinating weapon, for national exaltation or as a new alternative truth ends up giving a partisan whiff that I detest in this type of narrative. If you want to write about history ...

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The Awakening of Heresy, by Robert Harris

The Awakening of Heresy, by Robert Harris

The moment always comes when every narrator of historical fictions ends up tackling the current thriller with its added suspense due to the dark setting of remote times. Robert Harris was not going to be an exception. In a society where faith and dogma have banished the ...

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Munich, by Robert Harris

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Perhaps the Munich accords of September 30, 1938 were the launching off of the imperialist anxieties of Nazism. The annexation of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany was that concession to the cause of the Third Reich, prior to the final outbreak of the Second World War, and interpreted by ...

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