But when she loses contact with one agent in the field, codenamed Yvette, her loyalties are torn.

Working at the foreign office in charge of agents presents an opportunity for blackmail. Who can she trust? Back in London, Vera desperately needs to be made a UK citizen to erase the secrets of her past. Codenamed 'Yvette', she's parachuted into France and met by the two other members of her SOE cell. The chance to work with the Secret Operations Executive (SOE) helping the resistance in Paris offers a fresh start. I exchange some of my Western Marks for East, at a rate of four to one.From the bestselling author of The Gunner Girl - how far will two women go to survive WWII? Having suffered a traumatic experience in the Blitz, Edie feels utterly disillusioned with life in wartime London. “Pedestrians hunch their shoulders against the icy air and hurry past, all except one: a middle aged man in a check jacket and homburg, who mutter something about changing money. Sleet runs like sideways tears on windscreens.” The min streets were still choked with cars heading towards the Wall border crossing points, and the air is thick with the metallic tang of exhaust fumes and the chug of two-stroke engines. She sees a line of POW being marched past her in her village, and then she meet him again, but the danger of helping, of becoming involved could lead to death.

Detta lives in fear of soldiers walking past, the danger on every street corner. Detta boards a train and has to keep her eye on everyone around her. When they set off again Tom heard the guards shouting down the line, No More stopping until they’d all crossed the Oder.” Nearby, another dysentery-ravaged man jack-knifed, too cold and weak to even more aside and drop his trousers….”They were a reeking squad. He passed to Gordon, letting his friend taste the warming smoke first. Through numb fingers he managed to light them a cigarette, trying not to think about frostbite. Tom and Gordon stopped under a tree whose branches seethed angrily overhead. The story looks at the experience and treatment of the prisoners of war: The city of Berlin is evoked through the war years and then in 1989 when the wall comes down. Travel Guide Travel BookTrail Style to Berlin Meet author Clare Harvey in #Authorsonlocation

The English Agent by Clare Harvey