A very exciting thriller; if you have seen the film, the plot will be familiar. The final battle scenes are longer and more bloody and there is a minor difference in the final conclusion to the Germans' operation with regard to Churchill, which is handled more dramatically in the film. One of the most striking and somewhat uncomfortable aspects of this novel is that you can't help feeling some sympathy for the German soldiers and their allies, Liam Devlin and, to an extent, Joanna Grey. The motivations for all these characters are explored very effectively and the only wholly unsympathetic (fictional) characters are the Britischer Freikorps man Preston and the Birmingham gangster Devlin kneecaps. Powerful stuff. ( )

This was a ripping good read -- I enjoyed it from start to finish and had to go out and pick up the sequel! ( )

Get Churchill : shorty.

Old Adolph is having not a great time of it as the Allies begin to make gains in various theatres of war, so he hatches a spy-raid type plot to kill Churchill while he is not as easily defended.

To do this involves landing a team near a small town, and being assisted by a couple of local ratzi sympathisers.

A decent enough book, nothing particularly good.

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OK, I guess, but I just didn't really care. I stopped listening about 9/10s of the way through.
The setup, all the description of planning, was interesting, but
as soon as the plan starts to unravel, it's obvious it's going to fail, and at that point I wasn't especially interested in how the various characters are going to die or be captured. ( )

Nazis come to England to try to assassinate Churchill. That's basically the idea - the story is how the plan is put together, how it works and doesn't, and intertwines with the life of a small town near the coast struggling to survive the war.

I'm not a huge fan of war fiction, which tempers my response to this piece, but as far as these things go, the writing is good and the pace reasonable enough; it provided a few days' entertainment at least. ( )