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|title=I Can't Begin to Tell You

|author=Elizabeth Buchan

|isbn=978-0718178918

|website=http://www.elizabethbuchan.com/

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War came to Denmark in 1940 and people found that they had to take sides. British-born Kay Eberstern wasn't completely involved to begin with. She had obvious sympathies with the British but her husband had German ancestry and she could see Bror's point of view. But Bror went a little further than she thought necessary and openly sided with the occupying force because he felt the need to protect the family estate and the people who worked there. Gradually Kay came to realise that she could not - ''would not'' - accept this and she became increasingly involved with the Resistance movement.

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...

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.

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