Ryfka

By Patrick Alexander

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0017GTUUM
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: The Leisure Circle Ltd

Customer Reviews

War time terrors

One of the main commands from Churchill's war room is that no one who is in possession of any details of the imminent D-Day landings in Normandy, persons code named "bigots", is allowed to be in any danger of being captured by German forces and forced to reveal secrets. One such recipient of secrets is an Air Commodore who had been a flying ace hero in WW1 and is bored to tears by being kept on the ground. He talks his way into being an extra passenger on a bombing mission but the plane is shot down and the Air Commodore, posing as a much lower ranked airman, is captured. The War Office sends in one of their most ruthless agents, a French-Jewish woman named Ryfka who has suffered terribly at the hands of the Gestapo with unspeakable tortures and beatings. She escaped from their jail on the last occasion that she was captured and knows only too well that to be caught again would be the end of her and her work for the resistance. Her instructions are to bring out the Commodore if at all possible but, in reality, to shoot him to prevent his being tortured to reveal secrets of the landing. The story is a fast, exciting one of their exploits and the realisation that a loving bond has formed between them. It's a great read and I'd like to read more by Patrick Alexander.