The Lieutenant’s Lover
“A wet spring crawled slowly into a hot German summer. But though the streets still shimmered with heat, as they did in that first intense summer after the war, the mood in Berlin grew icier with each passing month.
Rumours of arguments in the Allied Control Council spread like wildfire. It was said that the British were reducing their garrison in light of a possible evacuation. It was said that the Americans too were quietly evacuating dependents and retaining only core military personnel.
In o...ne way, the rumours were false, Neither the British nor the Americans – nor even the French, in whom no one had much faith – were depleting their forces in Berlin. But the whispering told a deeper truth all the same. The Russians were becoming increasingly hostile, increasingly assertive. Berlin was surrounded. The Western position untenable.
The summer blazed on. The rumours grew.
2 Misha knocked at the front door.
Behind him, in the neat suburban garden, a shell hole clawed its way into the lawn and fruit trees.MoreLess
Rumours of arguments in the Allied Control Council spread like wildfire. It was said that the British were reducing their garrison in light of a possible evacuation. It was said that the Americans too were quietly evacuating dependents and retaining only core military personnel.
In o...ne way, the rumours were false, Neither the British nor the Americans – nor even the French, in whom no one had much faith – were depleting their forces in Berlin. But the whispering told a deeper truth all the same. The Russians were becoming increasingly hostile, increasingly assertive. Berlin was surrounded. The Western position untenable.
The summer blazed on. The rumours grew.
2 Misha knocked at the front door.
Behind him, in the neat suburban garden, a shell hole clawed its way into the lawn and fruit trees.MoreLess
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