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    A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe...

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David McK (3801 KP) rated Dead of Night in Books

Apr 24, 2023  
Dead of Night
Dead of Night
Simon Scarrow | 2023
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Second entry in Simon Scarrow's now so-called 'Berlin wartime thriller series (after Blackout), again following Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke of the Kripo (criminal police) as he first investigates the murder (as the wife of the doctor believes) - or was it suicide? (been already ruled as such) - of a SS doctor, before being told in no uncertain terms to leave it alone.

He is then pulled into an investigation of a separate murder (again, is it such? The parents believe so, but the state does not) of a child which, as events transpire, seems to have more and more to do with the death of the SS doctor.

So I could see from roughly a third of the way into this where it was going. And it is horrifying that these events - well, maybe not *these* exact events, but very very similar ones - took place routinely in 1940 Nazi Germany.

Learn from history.

So it will never be repeated.
  
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ClareR (6230 KP) rated The Silver Wolf in Books

Mar 4, 2022  
The Silver Wolf
The Silver Wolf
J. C. Harvey | 2022 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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This is a new period of history to me, and I loved learning about it and following the adventures of Jack (or Jag) Fiskardo.

The Thirty Years War appeared to me to be a period where everyone was fighting everyone else in Europe. Jack’s father is caught up in all this and is killed, swiftly followed by the apparent suicide of his mother. Jack flees, knowing that he has to get away, carrying a silver medal with a wolf on it.

Jack has a habit of falling on his feet, and then getting into trouble of one kind or another - so he doesn’t stay in any one place for long. In this book, he starts off in France, then on to Amsterdam, and then Germany.

It’s an intriguing, exciting book, and really readable. The ending has ensured that I’ll most definitely look out for the second book in this trilogy.

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole and J. C. Harvey for reading along.