Munich is a 2017 historical novel by English writer Robert Harris.[1] The novel is set in September 1938 over four days in the context of the Munich Agreement.[2] The two main characters, both fictional, are Hugh Legat, private secretary to Neville Chamberlain, and Paul Hartmann, a German junior diplomat and member of an anti-Hitler group.[1] Legat and Hartmann are friends from their student days at Balliol College, Oxford University.[1] On 21 September 2017, an article in the Evening Standard asserted that the Paul Hartmann character was based on Adam von Trott zu Solz.[3]
See main article: Munich – The Edge of War. The novel was made into a 2021 German/British drama film for Netflix.[4]