Angel, Archangel

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To everyone who helped coax Angel, Archangel out of my weary typewriter — family, friends and literary ‘boffins’ — go my heartfelt thanks. I am especially grateful to Colonel Maurice Buckmaster OBE, for listening patiently to Plan Archangel and pronouncing it feasible; Sheila Mills for her in-depth analysis; and Harry Hawker for his excellent technical advice. Finally, had it not been for Mark Lucas’s constant encouragement and help, Kruze never would have taken to the skies. This book is as much his as it is mine (well, almost).

The aide-de-camp to the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army worked furiously to decipher the signal that had just come in from General Nerchenko on the First Ukrainian front, but long before he reached the end he reckoned that Plan Archangel was dead.

For a moment, the colonel considered flight, then thought better of it. How could he hide from the eyes and ears of the NKVD in Moscow?

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