Final pre-publication extract from my new book

'In his ripe old age, my father came to enjoy being lionised almost as a war hero, and his last television interview was broadcast the day after he died.'

Fritz Lustig, 1943

This is the final extract from my book And The Cello Came Too ahead of its official publication date next week. The extract is available to paying subscribers only, but if you want to be sneaky, you could cheat and try the free seven-day trial offer. Or you could simply buy the book now, by clicking here for the print version or here for the ebook and audiobook versions.

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For my father Fritz, being recruited into military intelligence in 1943 meant that at last, nearly three years after having signed up to join the British army, he was doing something that might actually help to defeat the Nazis.

To his dying day, he remembered those encouraging words from his commanding officer Colonel Thomas Kendrick when he arrived at Latimer House in Buckinghamshire, where he was to join a top-secret unit monitoring the bugged conversations of German prisoners of war: ‘The work you’ll be doing here will be a damn sight more important than if you were firing a gun or fighting on the front line.’