SS-GB
By Len Deighton
3.5/5
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In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall…
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it’s ‘business as usual’ at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.
But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle.
This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.
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Reviews for SS-GB
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5My first books that I read by Len Deighton were Game Set and Match. I liked them much better than this one. I guess this just indicates that I like books that are purportedly about the real history rather than ones about the what-if type of hypothetical history. But all that does not matter because Len Deighton is one of the best spy novel writers that I know of. I have not delved into the works of all the big authors in this genre yet. So from a limited field of candidates, about the only other author that comes close to Deighton for quality--and I admit I do not know them all yet--is John le Carre.I guess it could have really happened that the Germans took over Britain, and it is easy for me to say that I can not believe the likelihood of it, since I was not there during the blitz and all of the privations of the war. So I should just hold my tongue and accept that this is a very realistic book about the war, even if it did not happen.The next section of this review might not be relevant to most of you, unless you are baffled by time the same way I am. Like all of us who are library visitors, I give the new acquisitions rack a careful scan every time I walk in the door. When I first saw this book, I assumed it was a brand new book from Len Deighton, and picked it up because Deighton is one of my favourites. Because of the fresh condition of the book, I made the mistaken assumption that it was freshly penned. It was not until quite a bit later that I found out that it was a reissue with a new cover of a work from earlier decades. It probably makes no difference, but I always try to see if a book about a remotely historical period has enough clues in it such that I could guess what year or decade it was written in. For example, does a book about the year 1941 written in 1980 read any differently text- and style- and diction-wise than one written in 2009?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Minireview: The murder of a nuclear physicist in Nazi-occupied 1941 London sets off even deadlier power struggles both between and within the Wehrmacht and the SS, which the British Resistance tries to exploit to rescue the imprisoned King George. Caught in the middle is skilled Scotland Yard detective Douglas Archer, who needs to convince all sides to keep him alive while he investigates the murder. The plot is engagingly intricate and complicated, and much of the imagery of occupied Britain is captivating. The characters, however, seemed sketched out around stock mystery novel figures, which kept me reading from a distance.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This depicts a fascinating and chilling Nazi-controlled Britain following the defeat and surrender of UK forces in February 1941 and the execution of Churchill and incarceration of the King. I would have welcomed it if more of this was in the foreground as the I found the minutiae of the actual plot difficult to follow. The characters I also found rather uninteresting.