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The Riddle Of The Sands

By: Erskine Childers
Narrated by: Anton Lesser
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Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and is a classic of spy fiction.©2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Action & Adventure Alternate History Classics Espionage Genre Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Science Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense War & Military
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Called the first spy story, ROTS is very perceptive about what was going on between England and Germany - more than 10 years before WW1… I enjoyed both reading and listening to this, though it takes a while to get going. Anyone who has sailed, in particular in the Frisian islands, is likely to enjoy the jargon, too. Films of the book have been made for the more impatient.

But Audible oh Audible, either find readers who actually speak German or get the terms in a book brushed up on before they start - for a German speaker it grates every time a place name or expression is mangled, argh.

Oh the German…

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..aber sehr langatmiger Spionageroman. Ich bin nicht in den Verlauf der Handlung gekommen. Sehr gut gelesen.

Historisch interessant....

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