I have read this years ago, but can't remember much. This is the one of the most famous books in the genre of alternate history.

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5.2.2020
This was ok. The alternate history created by the author was fascinating, but I didn't care about the plot much. The biggest problem for me was that Xavier's motives for continuing the investigation seemed hollow. There was some try to make him to be a curious man who is interested in the truth, but some how that motive didn't feel important enough so his actions felt a little illogical.

The book continues its travel to em64.
Enjoy!

The book has arrived to Tampere. Thank you, Pellu!

The premise is an interesting one; it is April 1964 (when I was born...) and Nazi Germany won the war 20 years ago. Berlin looks like the model city Speer draw for Hitler in the 1940's; giant buildings and giant boulevards. I had bit of a problem adjusting to the story as it started as a detective story and not exactly as a deep look into an alternative world with Nazis in the lead. The post-war Nazi empire was just like a backdrop to the mystery. Xavier March was portrayed as a good man working for the bad system; he did his bit in the war serving in the submarines, he did his bit marrying a woman through-and-through loyal to the new system and producing a son. He is estranged from his son and their encounters are strained as the son, even if only 10 years old, believes in the system unlike the father. Once you got used to the book being a mystery, it got interesting but then the mystery was put aside and the real historical events started to emerge which again caused adjustment problems. It was like Harris was trying to combine two different stories into one and it did not go as well as it could have. The ending was a bit disappointing, I just don't like open endings. The book had a lot of promising aspects and did not manage to deliver to the full extent of the possibilities.