Erich, the central character, is a little boy living in the Manor, a grand house close to the Gulf of Finland and surrounded, beyond its disciplined parkland and lake, by a forest once inhabited by bears and still haunted by Forest Uncle, the King of the Forest, who may be an imaginary creature, a phantom, but who is real to Erich. It is a novelised history, stretching from the beginning of the second world war to the present day and the manner of its telling makes for a skilled and highly original story.
Vansittart is remarkable for being a carefully accurate historian who is also a splendidly imaginative writer of fiction, and he has made good use of both talents in Secret Protocols.
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