![]() ![]() So much so that, at numerous points, the book reads like an encyclopedia or a Dictionary of Nazi Biography. It is also a ‘documentary thriller’ ie it is deeply based on real events, organisations and figures which require a good deal of factual explanation in order to situate the foreground narrative into the full historical, geopolitical and diplomatic context. And we of the SS were the élite, still are the élite.’ (p.292)įorsyth’s follow-up to the sensationally successful Day of The Jackal (1971) and published just one year later, The Odessa File is also a historical novel – in fact set in the same year, 1963, as Jackal. ![]() That is greatness, young Miller, greatness your generation has never known and never will know. When the drums beat and the bands played, when the flags were waving and the whole nation was united behind one man, we could have marched to the ends of the world. ![]() ‘You youngsters today don’t realise what it is to be proud of being a German. ![]()
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