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A Toast To Tomorrow (Tommy Hambledon, #2)

Manning Coles

Start date: January 1, 2024

Finish date: January 31, 2024

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Why we're reading this: Winner of the poll for our first group read of 2024.
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Dec 16, 2023 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the second espionage novel by Manning Coles, following 'Drink to Yesterday.' 'Drink to Yesterday,' was set in WWI and British spy, Tommy Hambledon, was feared dead at the end. In this novel he has survived, but lost his memory. Waking in hospital, and speaking fluent German, he thinks he is German and gradually recreates a new life for himself, becoming Klaus Lehmann and eventually becoming Chief of Police and a supporter of Hitler.

This novel was published in 1940 and, although Hitler, G ...more

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Mar 28, 2016 Leslie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller-suspense, mysteries, british

4.5 stars
Not your typical WW2 spy thriller! Though there are some suspenseful moments (especially towards the end), this absorbing espionage novel (written in 1940) doesn't have gadgets or seduction scenes or even very many adventures so if that is what you are looking for, keep on searching. What it does have is a man living in Germany sending intelligence to Britain.

Some of the attitudes he espouses (particularly about Jews and blacks) may bother some readers but despite making me cringe, I t ...more

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Dec 30, 2023 Jill rated it liked it · review of another edition

This started well, by carrying on from the first book , but then it did get a bit confusing with all the foreign names that I was having trouble remembering who was who. Obviously Hitler and Goebbels stood out but others were more difficult for me. However, from halfway through, the story picked up, and it became more of a compulsive read. I would now, even try the third book at some stage.
I realise that these books were being written before the end of the war, so a lot of it was more conjecture ...more

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