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One of my raging favourites in college days - it retains much of the charm
on re-reading it, and the cold-blooded supermen Mallory and Andrea and
Miller seem just as understatedly heroic, but the thrill seems to have gone
out, but it's probably more me than the story. Undoubtedly, an epic tale
from the last wave of WW2 heroics literature, a bulwark of British
civilization right up there with the best of the Commando comics and
Biggles.