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Collaborator (Hardcover)

by Murray Davies (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (19 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333908449
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333908440
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,279,664 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sunday Mirror, September 2003
All the ingredients of a good thriller... An imaginative blend of well-researched fact and well crafted fiction.

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An enthralling what-if action adventure in the tradition of FATHERLAND, but set in occupied Britain 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent war time thriller set in a Nazi Britain, 11 Jun 2005
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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?

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5.0 out of 5 stars More please, 19 Jul 2005
This review is from: Collaborator (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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling and convincing, 14 Jan 2007
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This is an excellent read. It takes as its premise a successful German invasion of England in 1940 and tries to forecast the aftermath. In fact the novel covers a similar area to the acclaimed "SS-GB", a compelling novel by Len Deighton of a few year's ago but I think it surpasses that well-told story.

I've always thought, somewhat jingoistically, that England's resistance might have been better than that of France or other occupied countries. This novel makes me re-think that completely. Recognizable and well-drawn types from all walks of English life react to the invasion in a range of ways (some chilling) that sound entirely convincing.

I suppose one shouldn't forget that there was a clamour for capitulation and for becoming a self-governing province in the German empire from many MPs and that it was only the unlikely and unholy alliance of Churchill and the socialists that saw this off.

To put any spoilers here would be cruel so I won't.

A highly-recommended page-turner.
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