Len Deighton

Nazi-Occupied Britain, 1941

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Jose Vera

Es el año de 1941 e Inglaterra está invadida por los alemanes. Europa ya perdió la guerra y el rey se encuentra confinado en la Torre de Londres. Douglas Archer es Detective Inspector de Scotland Yard, ahora bajo ordenes de la SS. Va a tener que caminar sobre el filo de una navaja para poder resolver un misterioso asesinato.

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In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall... For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on. But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle. This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.

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Ethel

An interesting story about what if England had lost WWII

Key words: historical fiction, adult fiction, England, Nazi, mystery, murder, WWII, alternative history

This historical fiction was quite interesting but a bit difficult sometimes. I was attracted to this book because my boyfriend loved it and I like stories that imagine a “what if”. Here we have, what if England has lost the second world war. So, England is under the Nazi reign and we’re following Douglas who works for the British police. It is interesting to follow his investigation and to understand how people around him are sometimes linked to the resistance. I also enjoyed that the story doesn’t focus on the war or even on the Nazis so much as we just follow a British investigator. However, I struggled to get into the story. I think it is due to the fact that I don’t always understand the difference between the Nazis group and because of the style of writing. It is well-written but not one of the easiest for me, as a non-native English speaker. At one point, I just didn’t understand why the story was still going but then I got back into it, thankfully, and finished the book on a positive note. I would recommend this book to adults who like historical fiction. 

3.5/5

SS-GB Nazi-Occupied Britain, 1941

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