- Paperback: 656 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books (3 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 033049080X
- ISBN-13: 978-0330490801
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.8 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 496,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Derby Evening Telegraph, November 2004
This fast-moving, well-written, thought-provoking book moves smoothly to its exciting climax.
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December 1940 and England lies under German occupation. In the West Country, Nick Penny comes home after four months as a prisoner of war to act as interpreter to the provincial governor. He finds his father dead, his mother crippled, and his best friend Roy heavily involved in a resistance movement. When war hero Matty Cordington returns to run his father's estate, the three friends are re-united in a common purpose. Life under the occupation becomes a compromise at every level. Nick's sister Joan sleeps with a profiteer to find food for her family. There are leaks in the resistance movement, and Matty's girlfriend is fingered and dispatched. The occupation turns nastier as Hitler invades Russia, with less food and greater demands on the civilian population to labour in the Reich. Britain's Jews are first deported, then the 'Final Solution' is enacted on English soil. But treachery still dogs the resistance and, hunted by the Gestapo and the British police, Nick and his girlfriend Angel desperately race to eliminate the real traitor. The story then escalates to an explosive climax at the very centre of occupational power.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A first class war time thriller this. It follows the familiar - but rarely successful - storyline of what Britain would have been like if the Nazis had invaded these islands and took over the country in 1940.
It follows the story of man caught up in a very difficult position - he is a fluent German speaker and so he is called upon to be an interpreter for the senior officers of the occupying power which leaves him hated by the loyal Brits but still mistrusted by his German masters.
To complicate things, our hero, Nick Penny, then becomes one of the most senior members of the growing Resistance movement and his double life causes him, his family and his friends many problems and agonies as the story grows.
This has more validity than some of the other books on the subject I have read in that it seems to portray a more honest and accurate picture of what life would have been like under the Nazis where not every Brit would heroically fight the invaders and many would actually view the occupation as an opportunity for self-advancement.
This is a well-written and well-researched book which makes for great holiday reading. It has all the elements you want from a page turning thriller - chases, battles, double-dealing, blackmail etc - with more thought-provoking elements such as the true nature of occupation, what would Britons have done when we first saw hints of Jewish persecution and, indeed, would we really be as brave to take on an enemy as we imagine we would?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'What if' books regarding the invasion of Britain tend to concentrate on the immediate aftermath.
This book on the other hand took a longer look at what would have happened. I personally find the whole concept very disturbing and to read how many of the upper classes/aspiring upper middle classes would have thrown their hand in with the Nazis is disturbingly all too believable.
An excellent book and I look forward to a sequel - the reinvasion of Britian!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This has everything you could wish for in an alternative history novel. It's well researched, well written, thought provoking and it even manages to make the German invasion of 1940 seem plausible!
Like the previous reviewer I am looking forward to the sequel.
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