I started the month with a quartet of well-researched thrillers, all concerning WWII espionage.
German spies in the UK, the Double-Cross System and deception prior to D-Day all knit together to form a human tradegy.
The best of the quartet, which convinced me to read the others.
The British recruit an Anglo-Swiss businessman to pick up some vital information in Berlin. He doesn't know that they know that he is already working for the Soviets, and that they're using this to their own agenda.
Alex Gerlis, Vienna Spies
Alex Gerlis, The Berlin Spies
The war is drawing to a close, and the Allies are already thinking about what will happen next. The British must insert agents into Vienna - a task that has eluded them so far - in order to forstall Soviet abitions.
A mad scheme dreamt up in the war's closing months to infiltrate Nazi sleeper agents into the UK has serious consequences thirty years later and forces two former adversaries to work together. But do they really understand what's going on?
Sam Willis, The Admiral Benbow
After the enjoyable fluff, a just as enjoyable biography.
Willis does a good job in making the case that the least interesting, and least significant, aspect of Admiral Benbow's career was his legendary 'Last Fight'.
My reading on the navy in the Long-C18th moves on a generation.
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