132,956
edits
Changes
I Can't Begin to Tell You by Elizabeth Buchan (view source)
Revision as of 10:25, 22 July 2014
, 10:25, 22 July 2014no edit summary
And it's not just about Denmark. Back in England there are the cypher clerks who receive the morse code messages from the agents on the ground (the ''pianists'') who come to know 'their' agents, can identify their 'fist' and could tell if they were under pressure, but don't know who they are - or even where they are. The theme of strong women persists here too and if I have one quibble about this book it's that the men are more likely to be the pig-headed ones, whilst the women are the clear-sighted, logical beings. Oh, hang on a moment...
I really enjoyed the book and I cried at the end - and not just because I'd finished the book. I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
For a WWII book which has stood the test of time we can recommend [[Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes]]. I was also impressed by [[Wolfram: The Boy Who Went To War by Giles Milton]], a biography which looks at the war from the German point of view.