Title: Drink to yesterday
First published: 1940
Description: The story of an English spy in Germany during the First World War.  The spy is an young man with a gift for languages who joins the army against his family's wishes.  His gift is discovered and he is sent into the enemy country.  A series of remarkable adventures, including the destruction of a zeppelin and the necessary murder of a scientist, make the book thrilling.  Additional interest is added by his relationships with a German intelligence officer and with a young woman whose tragic death will ultimately prove his undoing.
Subjects: Fiction, Intelligence service, Intelligence officers, Espionage/Intrigue, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
Places: Germany, Great Britain
Time periods: 1912-1924