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Some here might be familiar with this book by Len Deighton who is usually known for spy novels. BBC is apparently turning it into a 5 part mini series, I hope they do it justice. I read the book when it first came out in 78 and have been a fan of it.
From the Chapters website description of the book "In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall...
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's "business as usual" at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.
But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle.
This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it"
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/ss-gb/9780008124878-item.html?ikwid=ss-gb&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0
The Daily Mail have a short article about the filming taking place around London at the moment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403958/Filming-new-BBC-drama-shows-London-looked-Germany-won-war.html
From the Chapters website description of the book "In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall...
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's "business as usual" at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.
But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle.
This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it"
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/ss-gb/9780008124878-item.html?ikwid=ss-gb&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0
The Daily Mail have a short article about the filming taking place around London at the moment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403958/Filming-new-BBC-drama-shows-London-looked-Germany-won-war.html
