THE TRAITOR OF ARNHEM

THE TRAITOR OF ARNHEM
by ROBERT VERKAIK.


After previously reviewing Robert's excellent 'The Traitor Of Colditz', I am delighted to bring you a review for his new book published by Headline Welbeck.

I decided to adopt a more cautious approach on writing this review. Reason being that I started this book having managed to avoid the many online press articles & so I had only read the cover's sypnosis. Hence I had virtually no idea what awaited me & I would love you to hopefully experience the same. So I won't reveal any spoilers here.

From London to Moscow. Across Western Europe & neutral Sweden. We meet a host of characters on both sides of the war. Resistance heroes, intelligence officers, diplomats & spies. Working out who tells the truth & who are likely to be the traitors made for a constant page-turner.

Robert's book came from his wish to research a relative. This research has revealed a web of wartime deception that was still being investigated in the 1970's.
 As the title of the book suggests, was Operation Market Garden in 1944 betrayed to the Germans before it commenced? Well you will have to read it to find out, but there is so much more packed into this book.

The cover tells us that Robert is also a barrister. Here then he has superbly layed out the evidence for the reader to digest. Some of it seems conclusive, other parts will require the reader to decide for themselves. Whatever your final conclusions are, I'm sure you will have been captivated by this excellent read. I know I was.

THE TRAITOR OF ARNHEM is available now in hardback.
My thanks to Robert & Headline for this review copy.

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