Munich: The Edge of War. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2017 book, Munich
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Munich
Robert Harris, 2017
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Christian Schwochow, 2021

It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain’s government desperately seeks a peaceful solution. With the pressure building, Hugh Legat, British civil servant, and Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency Conference.


The Forger. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2004 book
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The Forger
Cioma Schönhaus, 2004
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Maggie Peren, 2022

Jewish aesthete Cioma, age 21, will not allow anyone—especially the Nazis—to steal his passion of living. He has to devise new means of support in Berlin in order to avoid deportation in 1942. In the process, he learns his ability for identity theft, not just with passports.