V2 Quotes

“war was long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.”
― Robert Harris, V2

“A lot of Britain’s secret war was fought at the end of long, sweeping drives like this one, running through neglected parks, between overgrown rhododendrons and dripping elms, to hidden country houses where codes were broken, special operations planned, the conversations of captured Nazi generals bugged, spies interrogated, agents trained. Kay had walked this drive for the past two years – always with an unwanted memory of school – and at the end of it stood Danesfield House, a mock-Elizabethan mansion, built at the turn of the century, as sparkling white as the icing on a wedding cake, with crenellated walls, steep red roofs and tall red-brick chimneys.”
― Robert Harris, V2: A Novel of World War II

“By this time it was after half past three. The winter light was fading. Beyond”
― Robert Harris, V2: A Novel of World War II

“In Germany now there are three choices,’ Kammler told them. ‘You are shot by the SS, you are imprisoned by the SS, or you work for the SS.”
― Robert Harris, V2

“When the V2s had first started landing in September, the authorities had put out a story that the huge blasts were caused by exploding gas mains. Nobody believed it. (‘Have you heard about the Germans’ new secret weapon – the flying gas main?’)”
― Robert Harris, V2

“Real die-in-a-ditch fanatics.”
― Robert Harris, V2

“The integers of death.”
― Robert Harris, V2: A Novel of World War II