Piers Paul Read

When France falls during the Second World War, Bertrand de Roujay, a Catholic aristocrat and civil servant, escapes to England, joins the Free French, and is thrown into conflict with the Germans and with his political enemies in the Resistance

Life for the aristocracy was difficult, thier land was falling into the hands ofthe aristocracy.The Kornowski family have to make there ends meat...

July 20, 1894. The German military attaché in Paris receives a visit from a seedy-looking man who claims to be a French army officer in desperate need of money, offering to sell them military secrets.Captain Alfred Dreyfus was a rising star in the French artillery command. Reserved yet intelligent and ambitious, …