The Exception, Alan Judd
The Exception, Alan Judd
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The Exception

Author: Alan Judd

Narrator: Gibson Frazier

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/30/2017


Synopsis

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer, Lily James, and Jai Courtney.

The Kaiser’s Last Kiss is a “crisp, adroit, and subtle tale of great personal power” (The New York Times), which follows the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, the young Nazi officer assigned to guard him, and the Jewish maid who unwittingly comes between them.

It is 1940 and the exiled monarch Kaiser Wilhelm is living in his Dutch chateau, Huis Doorn. The old German king spends his days chopping logs and musing on what might have been.

When the Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser’s staff is replaced by SS guards, led by young and recently commissioned SS officer Martin Krebbs, and an unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper. While they agree on the rightfulness of German expansion and on holding the nation’s Jewish population accountable for all ills, they disagree on the solutions.

But when Krebbs becomes attracted to Akki, a Jewish maid in the house, he begins to question his belief in Nazism. As the threads of history conspire with the recklessness of the heart, The Kaiser, Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and the mysterious Akki find themselves increasingly conflicted and gravely at risk…

About Alan Judd

Alan Judd is the multiple award-winning author of sixteen novels, three of which have been filmed. He has also written two major biographies, Ford Madox Ford and The Quest for C, the authorised biography of the founder of MI6. Before becoming a full-time writer, he served in the Army and the Foreign Office and was subsequently a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. He currently writes he motoring column for The Oldie


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 28, 2017

I wish I had found this book to be more enjoyable but unfortunately I found it to be seriously lacking. Although I enjoyed the material, personally I have not read or have seen much material written about the Kaiser, I found the story line to be kind of boring. I did not find the romance to be believ......more

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on January 17, 2017

Slow in places, but not a bad read. Alan Judd’s latest book is a fictional account set at Huis Doorn in the Netherlands where the former Kaiser of Germany was living after his abdication at the end of World War 1. It’s 1940 and the Germans have now occupied the Netherlands and Martin Krebs is in char......more

Goodreads review by Sabrina on November 13, 2019

I watched “The Exception” before I read this book, and though neither are fantastic, I enjoyed the movie much more. For me, the novel is pretty flat and that could be due to the third person writing which tends to be too detached for my taste. I would have liked a first person’s point of view from M......more

Goodreads review by Helen on May 08, 2024

I watched the movie twice and then wanted to read the book. My assessment is that the movie is better than the book. The movie is special and memorable. The book is something you can read in two nights and be glad you did, but not be sure you got too much out of it? It's interesting to see how the m......more

Goodreads review by Hermien on January 30, 2017

Enjoyable, especially as I visited Huis Doorn a couple of years ago.......more