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The Riddle of the Sands is basically my perfect book because it combines spying, maps, upper class Englishmen being daft, and intimate descriptions of how a sail boat works. I have no interest in sailing but old fasioned technical stuff appeals to me on so many levels.
It was also a fairly daring political book. I can't actually remember whether it was written before the war or not (must have been) but either way there are a lot of upfront statments about the way we were dealing with Germany.
Also the first book to outline what we would now call the spy genre and a fuck off good one at that.
It was also a fairly daring political book. I can't actually remember whether it was written before the war or not (must have been) but either way there are a lot of upfront statments about the way we were dealing with Germany.
Also the first book to outline what we would now call the spy genre and a fuck off good one at that.