The Enigma Game

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Elizabeth Wein: The Enigma Game (EBook, 2020, Bloomsbury Children's Books)

eBook, 432 pages

English language

Published May 13, 2020 by Bloomsbury Children's Books.

ISBN:
978-1-5266-0165-0
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5 stars (1 review)

Windyedge Airfield, Scotland. World War II.

Louisa Adair, newly orphaned and shunned for her mixed-race heritage, has come here to the edge of the world to look after an old lady with a dark past. Jamie Beaufort-Stuart is a flight lieutenant whose squadron is posted to the airfield over winter. Ellen McEwan is a young woman held hostage by the German pilot who lands at Windyedge one wild stormy night carrying a terrible secret.

Three young people desperate to make a difference in a war that has decimated their families, friends and country. When the means to change the course of history falls into their hands, how will they use it? And when the enemy comes looking for them, who will have the courage to strike back?

A thrilling story of wartime secrets, international intrigue and wild courage from the award-winning author of Code Name Verity, with three young heroes …

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An exciting adventure story

5 stars

The Enigma Game is set slightly earlier in time than my first Elizabeth Wein novel (which I also loved!), Code Name Verity. It branches off from that book to expand upon Jamie Beaufort-Stuart's bomber pilot experiences and a brief period of the Second World War in Scotland. Most of the British-set WW2 fiction (and even nonfiction) books I have previously read seemed to focus either on London or places along the south coast of England so I was keen to learn more about the Scottish campaigns. Wein has again undertaken a lot of good research for her story which I felt had a strong sense of authenticity to it even though the central adventure is of course fictional. What particularly shone through for me were the diverse representations throughout the story. While elements of our media and politicians are currently trying to whitewash the British World War 2 narrative to …

Subjects

  • World War Two
  • Historical fiction