Hornet flight / Ken Follett.

By: Follett, Ken, 1949-Contributor(s): Boehner, John, 1949-Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Macmillan, 2002Description: 442 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0333908406Subject(s): World War (1939-1945) | World War (1939-1945) | 1939 - 1945 | Radar -- Military applications -- Fiction | Women intelligence officers -- Denmark -- Fiction | Spy stories | Brothers -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Denmark -- Fiction | Women intelligence officers -- England -- Fiction | Marine radio stations -- Denmark -- Fiction | Biplanes -- Denmark -- Fiction | Biplanes | Marine radio stations | Underground movements, War | Women intelligence officers | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 | Denmark | EnglandGenre/Form: Spy stories | War stories | Spy stories | War fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | War fiction. | Spy stories. | War stories. | Spy stories. | War stories. DDC classification: 823.914 | 823.92 LOC classification: PR6056.O45 | H67 2002b
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It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerat -- a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces -- and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall. It is only a matter of time before the brothers' paths converge in a united effort to overcome the Nazis. A discused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British...
Summary: It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life.
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Also published: New York : Dutton, 2002.

Also published: London : Pan, 2003.

It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerat -- a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces -- and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall. It is only a matter of time before the brothers' paths converge in a united effort to overcome the Nazis. A discused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British...

It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life.

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