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Werner

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Pub Date Jun 11 2025 | Archive Date Aug 21 2025

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Description

An action-packed story of lives and love affairs in the darkest times of the Second World War.

Autumn 1941. A German agent parachutes into England. Her mission: to replace the espionage circuit captured by British intelligence. The Abwehr target: the US Army Air Corps. Spencer Almeter, a Black American, finds discrimination within his own service and is brutally attacked over his relationship with a white English girl.

The USA pursues bombing raids over Nazi Germany. German born Werner is deployed by the British Special Operations Executive to conduct sabotage and espionage in Munich. He falls in love with a German student in an anti-Hitler resistance movement.

About the author

A graduate of the University of Leeds, Colonel Peter Haden was a professional soldier for twenty-five years. He commanded a battalion and served as a staff officer at the highest level in the Ministry of Defence prior to undertaking a successful business career. Werner is his fifth book and the third of the WW2 Jan thriller trilogy. He lives on the Isle of Anglesey.

An action-packed story of lives and love affairs in the darkest times of the Second World War.

Autumn 1941. A German agent parachutes into England. Her mission: to replace the espionage circuit...


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ISBN 9781917525053
PRICE £14.45 (GBP)
PAGES 493

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Really good read of three lives in the midst of some of history's most difficult days.
Werner, German born, is working for British Intelligence and is sent to gather information, behind the lines, for
them. At the same time, a young black American soldier faces racism and attacks as he falls in love with a white English girl. And a committed to the war effort German girl is sent to replace missing espionage instruments amidst a failed insert of another Nazi agent.
Great story telling with the realism of history surrounding it all.
Characters are fully defined and easily recognized as true to their representations.

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A great spy and espionage thriller with lots of interesting characters and side stories. Set in England and Germany.

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