Natalia Pastukhova
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A young lad stealthily posts anti-regime posters up in a small East German town. It is 1955. The search for him leads to his innocent sister's unjust death. A young police lass - threatened with sexual abuse by a high-ranking officer from Berlin - seizes the opportunity to flee to the West. A ghastly female police informant is by implication, likened to Judas Iscariot.
Entangled with this is a police chief's bitterness and grief over the girl he...
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Set in the early 1950s, this topsy-turvy adventure story tells of a clique of amateur British officers who plot to trap the faceless civil servants relaying their signals to enemy agents,
A cornucopia of both Soviet-era and British army anecdotes both capture and bring to life a bygone spirit and outlook,
Shifting from East Germany and Libya to Beirut and Otterburn Moor - though with its seeds in wartime Tangier - its anachronistic heroes...