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Violence
Some
Nazi occupation violence; deaths; wartime brutality
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of collaboration, resistance, and what it means to maintain ethics under occupation
What this book is about
Deighton's 1978 alternate history thriller imagines Britain under Nazi occupation, following Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer as he solves a murder that spirals into a plot involving Churchill, the atom bomb, and the resistance. For older teens and adults.
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Nazi occupation
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