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Aurore Graham Hurley     Head Of Zeus 2017                                                 409 Pages    The second world war has proved a generous mine for authors of war stories; former TV documentary film maker Graham Hurley, previously noted for his Winter and Faraday mysteries , is the latest to join their ranks. Aurore (French for “first light”) is the second of his “Wars Within” trilogy. The war was fought on many different parallel fronts ; Aurore details what happens when two of these intersect. Twenty-seven-year-old RAF Flight Sergeant Billy Angell, a wireless operator on Lancaster bombers, seemingly has nothing in common with middle-aged French sophisticate Helene Lafosse in her chateau ...

The Honest Spy Andreas Kollender Translated by Steve Anderson Amazon Crossing 2017                                                     353 Pages Not all Germans were Nazis... Like the Schindler famous for a celebrated list that salvaged a cross-section of a doomed race during the dark years of the holocaust, Fritz Kolbe detested Nazi ideology and despised party hacks, besides hating Germany’s Fuhrer with a passion that ran dark and deep.  Unlike the playboy-profiteer Schindler, the more principled Herr Kolbe was an insider, being a senior civil servant in the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin. After a promising early career with pre-war diplomatic postings in Spain and South Africa, his continuing refusal to join the Nazi Party saw him ignominiously recalled to Germany and given the lowly job of stamping visas and ...

THE INDIAN SPY Mihir Bose Aleph Books 2017                                                                                                       350 Pages In the course of their clandestine activities, the attitude of spies towards their ostensible masters can evolve towards antagonism. However, the late Bhagat Ram Talwar code-named Silver, the protagonist of The Indian Spy, started off working AGAINST British interests before working for them.   But then, the only quintuple secr...