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Originally Posted by rbruce1314
OTOH, I bought it when (very) cheap a couple of weeks ago as part of the whole series (gotta start at book 1 aincha?!) and couldn't get past Chapter 2: written in 1951 it had so much (now) totally offensive material (pro-Nazi/anti-Semitic) that I just couldn't stomach any more. <snip> Of its time perhaps but IMHO no place for it in 2017even if it is fiction.
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I have to disagree with your judgement. I didn't read it as pro-Nazi at all. Quite the reverse.
There is an ex-POW German character who is a Nazi. But he's shown to be a nasty piece of work.
I think it's very interesting as a contemporary depiction (in fiction) of post-war British life.