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D-Day is approaching. They don’t know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clairet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain’s most effective operatives in Northern France. She knows that the Germans’ ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communications, and in the days before the invasion no target is of greater strategic importance than the largest telephone exchange in Europe.
But when Flick and her Resistance-leader husband try a direct, head-on assault that goes horribly wrong, her world turns upside down. Her group destroyed, her husband missing, her superiors unsure of her, her own confidence badly shaken, she has one last chance at the target, but the challenge, once daunting, is now near impossible. The new plan requires an all-woman team, none of them professionals, to be assembled and trained within days. Code-named the Jackdaws, they will attempt to infiltrate the exchange under the noses of the Germans—but the Germans are waiting for them now and have plans of their own. There are secrets Flick does not know—secrets within the German ranks, secrets among her hastily recruited team, secrets among those she trusts the most. And as the hours tick down to the point of no return, most daunting of all, there are secrets within herself. . . .
But when Flick and her Resistance-leader husband try a direct, head-on assault that goes horribly wrong, her world turns upside down. Her group destroyed, her husband missing, her superiors unsure of her, her own confidence badly shaken, she has one last chance at the target, but the challenge, once daunting, is now near impossible. The new plan requires an all-woman team, none of them professionals, to be assembled and trained within days. Code-named the Jackdaws, they will attempt to infiltrate the exchange under the noses of the Germans—but the Germans are waiting for them now and have plans of their own. There are secrets Flick does not know—secrets within the German ranks, secrets among her hastily recruited team, secrets among those she trusts the most. And as the hours tick down to the point of no return, most daunting of all, there are secrets within herself. . . .
432 pages, Paperback
First published December 3,2001
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432 pages, Paperback
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December 5, 2006 by Penguin Books
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9780451219596
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0451219597
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English
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Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (1887 - 1976)He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in ...
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Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Field Marshal of World War II. His leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign established him as one of the most able commanders of the war, and earne...
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Dieter Franck
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Michel Clairet
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Paul Chancellor
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Ken Follett is one of the world's most successful authors. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.
Born on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995.
He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director.
Ken's first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. A World War II thriller set in England, this book earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. It remains one of Ken's most popular books.
In 1989, Ken's epic novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth, was published. It reached number one on best-seller lists everywhere and was turned into a major television series produced by Ridley Scott, which aired in 2010. World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, proved equally popular when it was published in 2007.
Ken's new book, The Evening and the Morning, will be published in September 2020. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth and is set around the year 1,000, when Kingsbridge was an Anglo-Saxon settlement threatened by Viking invaders.
Ken has been active in numerous literacy charities and was president of Dyslexia Action for ten years. He was chair of the National Year of Reading, a joint initiative between government and businesses. He is also active in many Stevenage charities and is President of the Stevenage Community Trust and Patron of Home-Start Hertfordshire.
Ken, who loves music almost as much as he loves books, is an enthusiastic bass guitar player. He lives in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, with his wife Barbara, the former Labour Member of Parliament for Stevenage. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren and two Labradors.
Born on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995.
He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director.
Ken's first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. A World War II thriller set in England, this book earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. It remains one of Ken's most popular books.
In 1989, Ken's epic novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth, was published. It reached number one on best-seller lists everywhere and was turned into a major television series produced by Ridley Scott, which aired in 2010. World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, proved equally popular when it was published in 2007.
Ken's new book, The Evening and the Morning, will be published in September 2020. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth and is set around the year 1,000, when Kingsbridge was an Anglo-Saxon settlement threatened by Viking invaders.
Ken has been active in numerous literacy charities and was president of Dyslexia Action for ten years. He was chair of the National Year of Reading, a joint initiative between government and businesses. He is also active in many Stevenage charities and is President of the Stevenage Community Trust and Patron of Home-Start Hertfordshire.
Ken, who loves music almost as much as he loves books, is an enthusiastic bass guitar player. He lives in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, with his wife Barbara, the former Labour Member of Parliament for Stevenage. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren and two Labradors.
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O livro possui um ritmo de narrativa muito fluido, capítulos curtos, isso faz com que o leitor leia um atrás do outro, e quando damos por si já lemos cem páginas. Há dois pontos de vista diferente: da protagonista britânica infiltrada na França, ocupada pelo exército alemão, e o ponto de vista de um oficial nazista. E isso se torna briga de cão e gato, a agente dos Aliados tentando concluir sua missão secreta, e o oficial nazista testando desvendar e interceptar o plano vigente dos Aliados, um sem conhecer o outro.
Com cenas de humor, ação, suspense, tortura e os horrores da segunda guerra mundial, inspirado numa história real, As Espiãs do D é, sem dúvida, um ótimo livro.
Com cenas de humor, ação, suspense, tortura e os horrores da segunda guerra mundial, inspirado numa história real, As Espiãs do D é, sem dúvida, um ótimo livro.
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Nikt nie rysuje postaci jak Ken Follett. Nikt nie potrafi tak samo opowiadać. To zdecydowanie coś więcej niż thriller wojenny. Kolejna książka mojego absolutnie ukochanego autora za mną.
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After a chunk of the French resistance in Reims is killed, a ragtag band of (mostly) English female saboteurs are recruited and trained to take their places and blow up an important telephone exchange operated by the Nazis. (They must be female because they're going in undercover as cleaners.)
Follett is from the Captain Obvious school of writing. In my favorite example, the protagonist Flick and her gay brother Mark go to a gay club in London.
A waiter said, "Hello, Markie," and put a hand on Mark's shoulder, but gave Flick a hostile glare.
"Robbie, meet my sister," Mark said. "Her name's Felicity, but we've always called her Flick."
The waiter's attitude changed, and he gave Flick a friendly smile. "Very nice to meet you." He showed them a table.
Flick guessed that Robbie had suspected she might be a girlfriend, and had resented her for persuading Mark to change sides, as it were. Then he had warmed to her when he learned she was Mark's sister.
But the novel is not all such tender scenes as this. In fact there is lots and lots of torture. "Some men enjoyed torturing prisoners," Follett writes. "They smiled when their victims screamed, they got erections as they inflicted wounds, and they experienced orgasms during their victims' death throes." After about the sixth explicit Nazi torture scene, some of it extremely disturbingly sexual, readers can be excused for thinking that some men enjoy writing about torture in the same way.
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Jackdaws focuses on the approaching days before D Day when British Special Operations Executive, Felicity "Flick" Claret, has been tasked with taking down the Germans' communications center in France with a ragtag team of women that she has chosen for the mission to prevent interference with the Allied plans. What transpires is a riveting tale. Author Ken Follett dedicates this book to the fifty women sent into France as secret agents by the SOE during World War II, noting that thirty-six survived while the other fourteen died.
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Toujours un plaisir d'écouter en audiobook sur Audible qui est une plateforme que j'affectionne tout particulièrement et qui fait un excellent travail !
Pour en revenir au roman en lui même :
J'ai trouvé que l'histoire dans son ensemble et le concept d'une équipe d'espionnes/saboteuses était vraiment sympa et plutôt bien exécutée. J'ai absolument adoré le dernier tier du roman où les choses s'accélèrent et que le rythme devient réellement haletant !
Une jeu dangereux du chat et de la souris entre un officier allemand et la chef d'équipe du réseau corneille, chacun essayant de déjouer les plans de l'autre.
Il m'a semblé quand même qu'il y avait quelques invraisemblances dans le récit. De plus, à certains moments, j'avais l'impression que l'auteur ne savait pas exactement quelle attitude adopter surtout par rapport au comportement des femmes. Cela arrive souvent chez les auteurs hommes quand il y a dans leur roman un grand nombre de femmes parmi les personnages principaux.
Cela ne m'a pas empêché d'apprécier le roman dans son ensemble bien que c'était un peu embêtant.
Pour en revenir au roman en lui même :
J'ai trouvé que l'histoire dans son ensemble et le concept d'une équipe d'espionnes/saboteuses était vraiment sympa et plutôt bien exécutée. J'ai absolument adoré le dernier tier du roman où les choses s'accélèrent et que le rythme devient réellement haletant !
Une jeu dangereux du chat et de la souris entre un officier allemand et la chef d'équipe du réseau corneille, chacun essayant de déjouer les plans de l'autre.
Il m'a semblé quand même qu'il y avait quelques invraisemblances dans le récit. De plus, à certains moments, j'avais l'impression que l'auteur ne savait pas exactement quelle attitude adopter surtout par rapport au comportement des femmes. Cela arrive souvent chez les auteurs hommes quand il y a dans leur roman un grand nombre de femmes parmi les personnages principaux.
Cela ne m'a pas empêché d'apprécier le roman dans son ensemble bien que c'était un peu embêtant.
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Ken Follet achieves the nearly impossible task of creating genuine suspense about an event that is well-known, with fresh characters, clever plotting, and surprising twists on an old story. You will enjoy this book on a long plane flight, or just sitting out on your porch during the lazy days of summer. I always enjoy Ken Follet's approach to history--crackerjack pacing, strong dialogue, and a deep desire to entertain. If only all writers cared as much about their audience's enjoyment as Follet does, TV would become obsolete.
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8/10 en 2006.
El libro es de 2001, cuando Follett escribía sobre espionaje en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Para mí sus mejores novelas (vale, Los pilares de la Tierra está muy bien) son las ambientadas en esta época.
El libro es de 2001, cuando Follett escribía sobre espionaje en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Para mí sus mejores novelas (vale, Los pilares de la Tierra está muy bien) son las ambientadas en esta época.
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