Police, doctors, teachers worked, as life continued independently of the full horrors of war. There was regular train, ship and plane travel. Letters posted in Berlin arrived in Stockholm or Salonika. Spies of the Balkans Hardcover 15 June 2010 by Alan Furst (Author) 602 ratings Book 11 of 12: Night Soldiers See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 71.77 2 Used from 12.38 3 New from 29.20 Paperback 22.33 1 Used from 23.39 11 New from 21.64 Audio CD 156.00 4 Used from 20.14 2 New from 68. Providing visas were issued or falsified, there was far more travel, trade and contact between these countries than is appreciated by the British-American literary tradition - which holds that all Europe became a no-go concentration camp under the Nazi jackboot. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. The impact of the war on the Iberian peninsular, or on those central European countries like Switzerland, Hungary and Romania which tried to stay aloof from the conflict, remains little-known. Spies of the Balkans is the latest of his page-turners about the coming threat of Nazism and German occupation in the regions of Europe that were neither immediately conquered like France or Poland, nor which held out like Britain. He has achieved a complete reinvention of the Second World War spy novel as a vehicle for deeper insights into the human character, especially as it come under the pressure of accelerating history. Alan Furst has done this century what Eric Ambler and John le Carré did in the last. Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel.
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