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Title: A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich

Author: Lucas Delattre

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-05

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 97 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Kolbe had decided to betray his country. Over the next two years, Kolbe passed on countless valuable documents about German war efforts by tying the pages to his thigh and praying to avoid customs searches. He described the location of munitions factories and relayed diplomatic reports on Germany's intelligence operations and relations with other Axis nations like Romania and nominally neutral countries like Spain.

Viewed by many Germans as a traitor, he was erased from the history books and, after Hitler's fall, his diplomatic career came to an end. Drawing on recently declassified materials at the National Archives in Washington and Kolbe's personal archives, Lucas Delattre has written an extraordinary tale of an ordinary man who knew the most valuable service he could provide his country was to betray it.

Critic Reviews:

"Smoothly chronicles the impressive wartime activities, and woeful postwar treatment, of a German foreign ministry official." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

100% very good

I liked everything about this book: The topic, the prose, the reader. One more instance of a hero coming from the least expected place, and how unfairly things can turn out for those who don't deserve it.

Interesting, most of all because it's true.

This is not really a novel, but rather a true story told in a documentary, third person form. Some may think it's a bit dry, and the narrartor tells the story kinda like a documentary voice over. Still, if you can visualize the scenes and the characters, it is quite engaging. While you'll want to pay attention - to fight the tendency to doze off due to the monotonous narration - you can't help but come away with a sharper insight as to the horror of the Third Reich, the terror the German people endured from the bombing and their own leadership, and the unfair way in which life can turn. Also, Fritz is not an especially likeable fellow as told here. If you enjoy WW II stories, you'll probably like this.

Disappointing

The book reads more like a diary than a work of literature. It seemed to be a recitation of events in a rather matter of fact style. It was somewhat interesting, but not really entertaining.

Ok

This wasn't nearly as exciting as I thought it might be. It was VERY detailed, which I didn't mind, but was definitely from the documentary perspective when I was hoping it might be a little more of a "story" perspective.

The reader was good.

Epic story

Recommended to any history particularly WWII buffs. Fascinating.

Throws a light on the internal tensions in NAZI Germany.