J.D. Holman’s Reviews > Through Embassy Eyes > Status Update

That anecdote is worth reading this, all on its own.

"... the rose ends of cigarettes like captive fireflies in the hands of the smokers."

The book is due and MeLCat gives no quarter. I have to request it again, to pick up at chapter 7!

At least I got to read through the chapter on the Purge (Night of the Long Knives). It's easy to see how heavily Chiaverini relied on this book for "Resistance Women."

It's certainly interesting to read about the reception and treatment of the press in early Nazi Germany and compare it to current events...

I was not expecting so much on the German royal family. Really, I didn't know there was still a royal German family, that was hoping to be restored, in the 1930s. (Or that in the 21st century, they are still around and still trying to get property back.)

This exchange was repeated verbatim in "Resistance Women!"

Wow, she's frank.