

An edition of Drink to yesterday (1940)
By Manning Coles
Publish Date
1984
Publisher
Dent
Language
eng
Pages
270
Description:
The story of an English spy in Germany during the First World War. The spy is an young man with a gift for languages who joins the army against his family's wishes. His gift is discovered and he is sent into the enemy country. A series of remarkable adventures, including the destruction of a zeppelin and the necessary murder of a scientist, make the book thrilling. Additional interest is added by his relationships with a German intelligence officer and with a young woman whose tragic death will ultimately prove his undoing.
subjects: Fiction, Intelligence service, Intelligence officers, Espionage/Intrigue, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
Places: Germany, Great Britain
Times: 1912-1924