bloodygranuaile

The forties are certainly the most thrilling! I think I also have an easier time with "the Nazis were bad, so everyone fighting them is for our purposes good (regardless of whatever other awful shit they got up to)" than I do with "the Soviets were bad, therefore everyone fighting them is good," especially given what I know about what got lumped under "fighting Communism" at the time. I think this book leaned harder into establishing Good Guys and Bad Guys than "A Spy Among Friends," which was at least as much about how classist and gullible MI6 was as anything else.