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I read this book last year and I just found that I never rated it on Goodreads. This is a very fine story of able men, brave soldiers and honest beings fighting for an evil, lost and immoral cause. The German soldiers work on a suicide plan to kidnap Churchill when he is vacationing in a distant and aloof countryside. The whole plan is full of risks and precarious situations that dare even the bravest of men, but these gallant soldiers are on it without any second thoughts. An excellent WW2 stor
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I really enjoyed this very competent WWII thriller. The Nazis have a plot to kidnap Churchill. Since this isn't alternate history you know it's going to fail, and thus the focus is on how it fails, and on how the plot was hatched in the first place. There are enough twists thrown in here and there to keep this from being too predictable.
The main characters are fairly well-fleshed out, given the constraints of an action-oriented book. I liked some of them enough that I wished I could get to know ...more
The main characters are fairly well-fleshed out, given the constraints of an action-oriented book. I liked some of them enough that I wished I could get to know ...more
Jul 06, 2012
Greg
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
espionage,
spy-novels
Sep 12, 2012
Graeme Shimmin
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
spy-thrillers
