I am currently reading “The Spirit of Resistance: the Life of SOE Agent Harry Peulevé” by Nigel Perrin. The author is the son of an opponent here at RHP.
It was serendipitous that he mentioned the book because I was very familiar with the story of another Special Executive Operations Agent during WWII, Noor Inayat Khan, was eventually expected at Dachau.
The SOE were vital to advancing the missions of the British Forces, and most paid the ultimate price for their brave efforts. I do not think that future generations can even fathom their contributions.
I love old books too! Years ago, when my children were in elementary school, I had an idea to start a collection of old, first edition books. Over a few years I built up my collection...and then my children’s school burnt to the ground.
When I was able to speak with my daughter’s teacher and asked her what she had lost from her classroom, with tears in her eyes, ...[text shortened]... en who came through her classroom throughout the years.
Have you read “The Little Paris Bookshop?
No, I haven't and that makes me so happy because now I have something to look forward to! I will love that book. Thank you!
Most of the books on my bookshelves are a part of my home and my life. They are like the pictures on my walls - part of the family.
Naomi Schenk "Mein Großvater stand vorm Fenster und trank Tee Nr. 12"
Naomi is the granddaughter of Günther Otto Schenck, who was quite a figure in post war German Science (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Otto_Schenck). When he died he charged her with writing his biography.
@torunnsaid John LeCarré: A Legacy of Spies (2017)
I have just finished reading this novel which is 'both a prequel and sequel to John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'. It is, as all of Le Carré's books, an amazing, complicated story, and its ending seems to me to open up for yet another book. I hope so - I couldn't help falling in love with one of the characters, Peter Guillam. 🙂
What are you reading?
28 Nov '19 17:36
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