β Scribed by Frederick E.Smith
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Like the seven novels that precede it, this is a story
of the lives, loves and sacrifices of men and women involved with the legendary
633 SQUADRON IN WORLD WAR II
It is late autumn and the Admiralty are complaining
that a high-flying Junker 86P is keeping a mysterious surveillance on Britains eastern ports. Acutely aware, after the destructive
arrival of the V1 and V2 rockets, that Germany is developing an entire range of
secret weapons, London asks its agents in Scandinavia to check if any unusual
enemy activity has been noticed there that would explain this German vigilance.
The answer is so serious that Churchill issues one of his rare ACTION THIS DAY directives. Davies volunteers his
squadron for the task, only to learn too late that the difficulties and dangers
are immense. A man has to be posted in Norway to aid the Squadron and Frank
Adams, whose wife is making his life a misery, volunteers. Impressed by his
record in Operation Valkyrie, Davies finally agrees.
Over in Norway, Adams meets Helga Lindstrom again, the
woman he fell in love with during his last expedition in Norway. But he also
has to face many hardships and dangers, not least the presence of the dreaded
Gestapo.
How other sacrifices have to be made before the threat
is removed are told in this latest chronicle of 633 Squadron, in which the
author explores with his customary flair the skills and daring of the characters
he created in the first of these famous novels and has so successfully
developed in the whole dazzling series.
Frederick E. Smith (1919-2012) joined the R.A.F. in 1939 as a wireless operator/air gunner and commenced service in early 1940, serving in Britain, Africa and finally the Far East. At the end of the war he married and worked for several years in South Africa before returning to England to fulfill his life-long ambition to write. Two years later, his first play was produced and his first novel published. Since then, he wrote over forty novels, about eighty short stories and two plays. Two novels, 633 Squadron and The Devil Doll, were made into films and one, A Killing for the Hawks, won the Mark Twain Literary Award.
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