Elizabeth’s Reviews > Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War > Status Update

Oooh the Earl of Suffolk is a combination of “sir Francis Drake and the Scarlet Pimpernel”! I think we need a novel about him!

I love how this book corrects my assumption that it was Britain and Britain alone who kept the early WWII vigil. This chapter quotes a British official who said that “the Norwegian merchant fleet was worth more to England ‘than an army of a million men’” because without them, the Allies would likely have lost the Battle of the Atlantic.