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A review by roseybot
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. by Sarah Helm
5.0
I'm reading for research atm, and picked this up cause it was in Code Name Verity's bibliography. ABSOLUTELY fascinating and well researched. I knew about the French resistance and that the British were involved, but I didn't know how wrong it all went and how there were so many conflicting things going on that "the fog of war" was really real.
Vera Atkins is a very interesting case, and while I think this book might have softened her edges, maybe it didn't. Vera was able to be many, many things, and I'm fascinated by her 'spy-ness'.
Plus, despite it being a history and it taking me a bit to get through it, the book read fast. It was thriller pacing, and I always wanted to be reading more of it, instead of whatever I was supposed to be doing.
Days between when I added this to read and when I read it: 0.
| 1/12/19 1230 ratings (466 5*, 460 4*, 228 3*, 56 2*, 20 1*) ) 170 reviews / added by 5369 people, 3816 to-reads
Vera Atkins is a very interesting case, and while I think this book might have softened her edges, maybe it didn't. Vera was able to be many, many things, and I'm fascinated by her 'spy-ness'.
Plus, despite it being a history and it taking me a bit to get through it, the book read fast. It was thriller pacing, and I always wanted to be reading more of it, instead of whatever I was supposed to be doing.
Days between when I added this to read and when I read it: 0.
| 1/12/19 1230 ratings (466 5*, 460 4*, 228 3*, 56 2*, 20 1*) ) 170 reviews / added by 5369 people, 3816 to-reads