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webjoram's review against another edition
4.0
Muy buena novela de espías ambientada en una zona y un momento no muy conocido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
cimorene1558's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent! If you like literate spy-type fiction, Helen MacInnes is a good author to investigate.
maplessence's review against another edition
5.0
Wow!
I'm going to give this book the full 5★, even though a couple of parts dragged for me.
Do you know when this book was first published?
1942.
When WW2 was still raging on. Ms MacInnes moved to the States in 1937 & communications (of course) aren't immediate the way they are now. But I'm going to assume that Ms MacInnes had done her research - or even talked to people who had had first hand experience.
Martin Hearn was the body double of a badly injured (in Britain) Breton & is parachuted into Brittany to take his place in a village of people who knew the real Bertrand Corlay well. Martin is also fluent in French, but will he be able to deceive people who knew the real Corlay well - like his mother & his fiancée?
Like I said above, there were some slow patches, but both the beginning & the end were taut & exciting & I found the
Be prepared for some chauvinism;
Disappointing from a female author, but unfortunately so common in 2oth century fiction.
I still loved it.
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I'm going to give this book the full 5★, even though a couple of parts dragged for me.
Do you know when this book was first published?
1942.
When WW2 was still raging on. Ms MacInnes moved to the States in 1937 & communications (of course) aren't immediate the way they are now. But I'm going to assume that Ms MacInnes had done her research - or even talked to people who had had first hand experience.
Martin Hearn was the body double of a badly injured (in Britain) Breton & is parachuted into Brittany to take his place in a village of people who knew the real Bertrand Corlay well. Martin is also fluent in French, but will he be able to deceive people who knew the real Corlay well - like his mother & his fiancée?
Like I said above, there were some slow patches, but both the beginning & the end were taut & exciting & I found the
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love story very sweet - almost subtle.Be prepared for some chauvinism;
And yet it was difficult to restrain his own particular brand of humour when a young woman took herself so seriously: still more difficult when the young woman was so beautiful as this one.
Disappointing from a female author, but unfortunately so common in 2oth century fiction.
I still loved it.
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caroparr's review against another edition
3.0
An Engishman who bears a uncanny resemblance to a Frenchman wounded in battle travels to the man's small village in Brittany and impersonates him in order to gain information about French resources and enemy plans. Of course, there are surprises along the way. A bit too long, but engaging, and better than my other MacInnes read. My ancient copy was printed during the war, and the inside of the dust jacket prommotes other great works at similarly reduced prices: The World's Great Speeches, Practical Outline of Mechanial Trades for Home Study, Lillian Eichler's New Book of Etiquette, etc.
kimkaisgf's review against another edition
3.0
although marketed as a novel in the spy fiction genre, the latter half of AiB reads more like a romance novel than that of spy fiction. there is still enough of hearne's mission and the atmosphere of war for it to qualify as both, but the sped up romance is jarring to the rest of the text.
jmtinsd_58's review
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
mperret's review against another edition
3.0
This book was enjoyable but not incredibly riveting- It took me a full 13 day hospital stay to get through, but to be fair... I was a little distracted! It had some really beautifully written passages that made me so excited to go back to Brittany this summer :)
jodilynclayton's review
3.0
Her earlier books are so much better than her later ones. This has been my favorite one so far! It was pretty nail-biting at times. It was interesting to read about this area of France as well.