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  • Location: Bonn

A Small Town in Germany

A Small Town in Germany

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1960s: West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests.

  • ISBN: 978-0141196381
  • Genre: Spy story

What you need to know before your trail

Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing – along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting’s disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe – and the attentions of the British Ministry itself – are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined.

Le Carré’s searing Cold War novel creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred.

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Bonn and Berlin

By the end of the War, Berlin was a divided city. The British Embassy moved to Bonn but the British Consulate-General re-established itself at 7-8 Uhlandstrasse, in West Berlin.

The old embassy building at 70 Wilhelmstrasse was now in East Berlin, the capital of The German Democratic Republic.  Diplomatic relations between the UK and East Germany were not established until 1973.

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Destination/Location: Bonn   Author: John le Carre Departure: 1960s

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