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still want a dvd but SS-GB will be better.


I liked FATHERLAND the film when I saw it,never bought the dvd and now can't get it anywhere.
But much preferred SS-GB to FATHERLAND and now SS-GB is being made into a tv series.

The SS-GB story is much more realistic than the FATHERLAND one so lets hope for a good adaption.

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Don't hold your breath. It's been dramatised by the writers of the recent Bond films so don't expect anything particularly outstanding.

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I liked Fatherland (the novel) much more than I did SS-GB. Harris' book was more fascinating in its depiction of an alternate world where Germany won WWII primarily because it was set in the heart of the Reich (Berlin) and examined the beast from within, whereas SS-GB took place in London and the Nazis in it were occupiers of a foreign country. Also, Harris' protagonist was a German, so we got a first-person narrative from a character who had been with the phenomenon of Nazism from the beginnning, rather than an English filtering of someone abetting their cause. In a nutshell, although I believe Deighton to be formally a better writer than Harris, Fatherland had ten times the imagination that SS-GB had.

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