- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Book Guild Ltd (24 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857768701
- ISBN-13: 978-1857768701
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,236,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From existing review of Charles Whiting
Remove ...over 20 fiction novels
and replace with ...'over 300 published works'.
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Charles Whiting, the veteran British Author of many non fiction World War II books and over 20 wartime fiction novels has recently said of 'Himmler's Double':
'In his 'faction' D.H. Isherwood has produced a fascinating account of what supposedly really happened to Hitler's 'loyal Heinrich', the man who would never betray him.
Gripping, fast moving, based on excellent research, this is a taut tale that should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the events of that dreadful summer of 1945. Highly recommended.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Peter Coleman, Secretary General of the European PLP writes,
By Peter Coleman (Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Himmler's Double (Hardcover)
Many have suspected the official line given on the death of Heinrich Himmler. This fascinating fact/fiction account of Himmler's Double will give substance to those who doubted the original reports and change existing views on the Himmler suicide. What a read, and how cleverly researched with such detail, but still keeping pace and excitement for a really good read.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Himmler's Double (Hardcover)
A remarkable read, fully researched, sending the reader into the twilight days of the crumbling Reich.Any World War 2 afficianado will relish this information packed text.Written in a staccato, in depth style the story stands and holds it's own! On completion of the book I questioned the official line on the so called end of "Heinrich Himmler"Don't be suprised if Script writers and Directors get hold of the book for this is Film material. Excellent Book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Henry the Fouler,
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This review is from: Himmler's Double (Hardcover)
David Isherwood's fictional account of what may have happened to Himmler after his alleged suicide in British captivity takes us back to the half dozen years just before and just after the end of WW2. It is one more in a series of books recently published by various authors on the subject of whether and, if so, how Himmler died in British captivity in May of 1945. The authors are predominantly British and American and one gets the feeling, as in the case of Rudolf Hess, that they are somehow disturbed by this man, that they feel something is just not right, somewhere along the line, the way mathematicians felt for thousands of years about Euclid's axiom of parallels. In Germany, people seem to avoid these topics; perhaps they fear to be shouted down if they say anything unorthodox.
Is Isherwood's fictional approach better than the factual accounts written by Martin Allen or Joseph Bellinger on Himmler's death? Perhaps it is, in the sense that this method allows its author to explore his subject with greater freedom, he cannot be accused of having distorted reality, for if fiction does not distort reality what is it good for? The reader is offered, here and there, a glimpse of what may have been going through a person's mind at one point of the story or another, something which is, after all, intellectually stimulating, even if such a presentation may be denigrated for creating unmerited sympathy for the protagonist. But, we also have here a real thriller albeit with a historical background, we are being taken to Auschwitz, we meet Dr. Mengele, we learn something about Himmler's Wewelsburg folly, about his trust in voyants, we learn about hide-outs prepared for the survival of a selected few after the end of the war, we are taken along on rides in the cramped space of midget submarines and we are given at least the outline of the motivations prompting a man to take on the dangerous and unrewarding role of someone else. Some of the scenes depicted in the book are perhaps a little far-fetched, others are more convincing through the mass of material detail presented, and, overall, the author shows that he is familiar with his subject and the scenery into which he places his characters, be it northwestern Germany or the Norfolk coast. It is certainly an imaginative treatment of a subject and could provide the stuff that movies are made of. The fact that such a fictional treatment has been applied to Himmler shows us, perhaps, that even villains of his kind are now starting to become history and can be used in various ways for literary aims, the way authors have always been handling Napoleon, Richard III or Nero, to name just a few more conventional villains.
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