The 3rd paper book bought with Daniel’s Xmas Waterstone’s voucher. I has no idea that Childers’ was on IRA man, executed by firing squad in 1922.
I found this quite hard work because an awful lot of it involved some understanding of sailing techniques (of which I have none), and a lot more about the micro-geography of the north German coastline, and the tidal and sand patterns there. So this was quite a test – had to get a very old Atlas out to follow the plot as the illustrated charts in the text were impossible to follow.
But it is quite a good story; the prose very (I think) Edwardian English (reminded me of Conrad but perhaps that was the maritime aspect), the plot being a German plan to launch a maritime invasion of England, tricky as they have virtually no North West coastline, so an elaborate plan to use the half hidden (by numerous islands) coastline to mask troop and ship movement and to end up in the Wash where the sand/coastal structure is similar.
Obscure, narrative flow never fluent, but quite a good story.
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