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One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, a shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic, and there, amidst the sunshine and bright blue seas, they discover a German plot to invade England . . . Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands reflects the Anglo-German rivalry of the early twentieth century, and the intricacy of the book’s conception and its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre. This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands features maps drawn from Childers’ originals and an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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The Riddle of the Sands is one of those books that is more referred to than read! The novel famously served as a trumpet blast of warning to the British Naval authorities to shore up North Sea defenses and prepare for a possible sea invasion by the German Empire under the bellicose leadership of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The novel appeared in 1903 eleven years before the outbreak of World War I. The author is Erskine Childers (1870-1922) London born and half Irish,. Childers fought in the Boer War and World War I serving in the artillery. He and his American born wife Mary Alden Osgood smuggled weapons into Ireland in their rebellion against Great Britain. Childers was caught by the British and executed by firing squad in Dublin. The novel is a hard assignment for a landlubber! I struggled to keep reading the nautically influenced prose which I found hard to understand. The novel is narrated by Carruthers a Civil Service employee who goes on a mission of discovery with his old school chum Daviess. The latter is an expert yachtsman. Much of the book deals with the details of their voyage. The bottom line is their discovery of a traitor Englishman named Dollmann who is helping the Germans prepare for a British invasion. I found the love interest Clara Dollmann to be flat. There is not much of a plot other than the discovery of the covert plan to wage war against England by the German plotters. Childers has a style that is hard to follow and much of the book was a boring exercise for this reviewer. I give the novel four stars due to its historical importance as a warning sing of impending German hostility towards Great Britain which came real in August 1914.

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