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.
@hakima saidNo, 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!
@Torunn
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?
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.
I have finished
Hans Rosling: factfulness
A really good around perception and reality
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.
@ponderable saidIn what way is it disturbing?
Jon Gnarr
Indianer und Pirat: Kindheit eines begabten Störenfrieds
A book by former Reykjavik mayor Jon Gnarr about his childhood and youth. A disturbing read...
@torunn saidWell the youg Jon was not a nice child. He includes also some quotes from psychatrists which had to do with the young Jon...
In what way is it disturbing?
A moving scene for me was when he got glasses and all the world changed...
@ponderable saidOh, so he was misunderstood, or he didn't have what he needed to start with? No wonder he behaved differently.
Well the youg Jon was not a nice child. He includes also some quotes from psychatrists which had to do with the young Jon...
A moving scene for me was when he got glasses and all the world changed...
@torunn saidI 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. 🙂
John LeCarré: A Legacy of Spies (2017)