Jackdaws
In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett once again strikes Nazi pay dirt as a gang of all-female saboteurs go behind German lines.
In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett once again strikes Nazi pay dirt as a gang of all-female saboteurs go behind German lines.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451219596 (0451219597)
ASIN: 451219597
Publish date: December 5th 2006
Publisher: NAL Trade
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
War,
Military,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
France,
World War II,
Womens,
Suspense
This was a really exciting read that kept me interested from the beginning to the end. I also liked the topic - women fighting in WWII, because stories like that are not very much known, and also rather uncommon for that time (meaning a woman's role was being a mother, a housewive, maybe a telephoni...
Jackdaws is, quite frankly, a forgettable, cliche-ridden spy novel about a female special-agent team whose mission is to blow up a key telephone exchange in 1944 France. Follett wields the Holocaust like a sledgehammer to remind us why we should hate the Germans, without actually giving us any reaso...
Rating: 3/5 Summary: Days before D-Day there is a high priority Nazi target on French soil that needs to be destroyed. However, there is a catch, only an all-female team can gain access to it. Flick is put in charge of this quickly formed, ragtag team as they attempt to fulfill their dangerous missi...
These are only some of my favorite books. Picking just one would be impossible!
Read by Kate Reading. Unabridged, on 9 1/2 Tapesblurb from Publishers Weekly- Time is running out. With D-Day rapidly approaching, the Nazis are actively trying to quash the French resistance. Meanwhile, Britain's Special Operations branch is working hard to supply the resistance with intelligence, ...
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