Genre: Novel
Grade A
Notable People: Philip Kerr
Title: Hitler’s Peace
Review: Wow- this is one for the ages. I have be reading Kerr’s accounts on pre/during/post war Nazi Germany through the lens of his Bernie Gunther detective novels for the last year and have been duly impressed. This is a whole other level. Kerr tackles the 1943 “Big Three” conference in Teheran –which had Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meeting to plan out how to end the war. Under this veneer, are plots to assassinate both Stalin and Hitler. secret operations of Nazi parachutists into Iran to kill the “big three”, total immersions into the beginnings of the spy culture and the cold war…all in a fascinating (and partly true portrayal of the last push of the war; to find pace, to eliminate Hitler and to control Stalin. Extremely well written and a nail biter to boot.