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A man whos spent eleven years in prison, despite only being sentenced to ten months, is set to be released. An update on the market numbers for you. Heres how london and frankfurt ended the day. Both down a little. And in the the united states, this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. Now its time for meet the author. Munich. A word that in britain was turned from the simple name of a city, into a political label for the appeasement of hitler, perhaps for political weakness in the face of aggression. Well, it is the title of Robert Harriss new novel. A thriller set in that anxious prelude to the Second World War, and a story of betrayal and loyalty. Welcome. You face an interesting problem as an author here. Because youre trying to create tension, and a marvellous human story, against a backdrop where we know the outcome. You know, oddly enough, thats not a problem. One of the best thrillers of recent times, the day of the jackal, we know de gaulle was not assassinated, but its still a thrilling book. We know there was a deal at munich, thats not really the issue. Its how we get there, what went on behind the scenes. Who was trying to do what, in order to get to a point that the other. Person didnt know. What you have to do with this book, far from the essential human drama, which we will come to, for those who will not read it, is work out how hitler, for example, behaved in a room. How he looked at ribbentrop, chamberlain. What he was like. Well, yes, i must say, my biggest worry about writing the novel, i realised i had to have hitler quite close up, you cant really write a novel about the munich agreement without that. I did have one great piece of good fortune. Oddly enough, there is a 12 minute recording of adolf hitler speaking normally, it was recorded in finland in 1943. Nobody was aware of and it, it turned up in the finnish archives. You hear him speak this remorseless, grinding, and yet at the same time quite lively, voice. That was a great help to me. You dont have any other leader in the Second World War where we hear what they sound like over the dinner table. Talking about leaders. You managed to evoke a certain amount of sympathy for what chamberlain was trying to do, and how he went about it. And his fundamental decency, really. Although he was duped. Yes, no, i have a great sympathy for chamberlain. Im often drawn in life to unpopularfigures. And chamberlain was unlike the modern caricature of a weak leader that we have. He was a terrifically strong leader. If i had to think of a recent Prime Minister he reminds me of, its margaret thatcher. The same remorseless domination of his colleagues by his mastery of detail. He was as passionate for peace as hitler was passionate for war. And in a way, munich describes a kind of dual between these two men. Oddly enough, chamberlain wins the duel. I dont think theres any doubt about that. Hitler felt he had been cheated. And was furious with chamberlain. We remember it completely differently. Its very hard to realise, but that is how it looked to hitler. The drama that unfolded in the book, and i dont want to go to too much detail of the plot. A spoilerfor readers about to pick it up. There is human drama involving two people on different sides, as it were. Who knew each other before the war. What we see is the classic fight between loyalty to country and loyalty to ones own beliefs. That occurs again and again in your story. Its always going to fascinate you. Yes, i like the great historical event, and then the individual conscience caught up in it. Id wanted to write a novel about munich for 30 years. Id always had the idea of a Civil Servant who travelled with chamberlain on his plane to see hitler. But i could not see where else it went. A man having problems in his private life, his wife having an affair. At which point do you stop appeasing in the private life, as well as the International Stage . That was my original conceit. Last year, i thought if he was at oxford around 1930, and there was german scholar, and they were great friends, and this german travelled on adolf hitlers train overnight to munich, as my other protagonist travelled from london on chamberlains plane. And they met. That would take me into the conference. And theres a wonderful sense of fun, on the authors part. Serious fun of course, but fun nonetheless. Trying to recreate the atmosphere in the room. It has to come out of your imagination. We know the historical fa ct afterwards. And we can work out the various strategies. But what it was like, what the smell was like, what the feel was like. The atmosphere, the light in the room, that is in your head. Great fun to make it up. I had three great visits writing this book, one was around downing street after six oclock i was allowed in, and shown chamberlains private study. The geography of downing street. Then in munich, the building where the munich conference took place. It is hardly changed. Untouched by allied bombing. A lot of the decoration is still there. The study where the conference took place, you can see. Hitlers apartment. There i was very fortunate to get into that, because it is a police headquarters, closed off. That was staggering. Do you think you know what it felt like to walk into that room, when chamberlain and hitler met in person . I think i do. I read all the accounts i could. History, to me, is a very live thing. I dont necessarily believe in ghosts, but i believe in picking up, as it were, the tremors of the past. I feel that quite strongly. When i go to these places. Always in my books i have a strong place in place, i need that physicality. To go there, yes, i did feel i could imagine what it was like. The room was filled with uniforms, ss uniforms, goring, himmler, hess. Various types. The italians in their smart fascist uniforms. Then these rather dowdy civilians from london and paris turn up. Then the crowds outside. The swastikas. I didnt realise the munich conference took place in the absolute heart of nazism. There were all eternal flames. The grand reviewing area and so on. This was like a pagan city within a city. To bring all of that alive, for me, that is a great pleasure of writing. We are up both of the post war generation. Where the shadow of these events was so strong over us. And the interpretation was so vivid, by our parents generation. That we are now almost creeping out of that shadow, beginning to be able to look at it as independent human beings. We have this churchillian view of history. He was such a brilliant storyteller. A creative writer in a way, as well as Prime Minister. He has conditioned this whole island story of our. Of course Neville Chamberlain was given a very poor part. I dont think without 38, without munich, there wouldnt have been the glorious victories of 1940. Or the survival of 1940. Poor old chamberlain died early on in the war. Unable to give his version of events afterwards. He has many faults. In the end, appeasement failed. In the end, he got it wrong. Im not sure that any Prime Minister would have done anything different, to what he did. And i think he was aware, at least there was a pretty strong chance the agreement would not hold. And the british by 1939, under chamberlain, were spending 50 of government revenue on rearmament. Imagine if we were to do that now. So part of the idea of the book is we all have plenty of representations in fiction and on film of winston churchill, but i thought it would be interesting to try and represent chamberlain, what he was like. Robert harris, author of munich, thank you very much. Hello. 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