Hi VP, Try Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark very moving book and well what can you say about the film....And yes agree with you about Robert Harris I do in fact have both of them signed... Cheers Tom
I read Schindler's Ark a long while back, while I was supposed to be making perfume on night-shifts (thank you Estee Lauder for financing that intense period of reading & shirking). Much better than the film in my opinion. Again it kind of falls into the 'faction' category doesn't it, real events but dramatised. I'm currently reading Ken Tout's 'Tank', which seems to be a kind of distillation of real events, but with names changed for most participants. Can't quite decide if it's almost a novel or not - Suspect Tout's style is just so convincing and immediate that it reads like a novel while being an authentic bit of history. Why I've never read it before I've no idea. Whizzing through it like I haven't done any book for ages.
Whizzing through it like I haven't done any book for ages. It's been a few years but I felt exactly the same. A great read and very authentic.
How about 'Stratton's War' and 'An Empty Death' by Laura Wilson? They're about a detective during the war, well researched and very atmospheric. The first has an MI5-type theme and is based on (some) true events. There's a couple of others by John Lawton (I forget the titles) but are set during the war, then the Fifties and Sixties. A few of Ted Allbeury's spy novels were about SOE. Sadly, he passed away some years ago and I can't find his books anywhere. I have most of them (quite a magnum opus), but am missing a few. When he wasn't writing about SOE he was writing Cold War novels. He was in Int Corps as a Lt.Col. during the war. I believe also some of Clive Egleton's were set during the war too, but I've only read his more modern stuff. Again, he passed away a few years ago and now his books are hard to find.
