Just started From Blood and Ash.
Only a few chapters in. Broadbent has a nice way of writing then suddenly smut lol!
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I felt the same way! It's my favorite of the trilogy!
It's very good :)
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I bought the book because of that reason too
2 people reading it in same week? Is it a recent release? or recently in news? or just a coincidence?
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Reading them back to back?
Not quite. I've been mostly alternating with books for my book club.
Ian Fleming's Secret War:
https://www.casematepublishers.com/9781473853492/ian-flemings-secret-war/
Which I picked up as a sort of companion piece to "Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare":
and "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare":
The true stories of which were adapted into the really fun film of the same name:
Fleming was a bit player in the other books and the film, and I was interested to learn more about what he did during the war.
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When "rescued", the soldiers, dressed as Germans, would capture the boat and the encryption device.
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I look forward to hearing what you think of it. I'm always looking for more books!
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