We Were No Heroes Author:David Childs "We Were No Heroes", is fact-based, and tells the story of a British teenager, Martin Thomas, and of how his world has turned upside down, when his home is occupied and he is interned in Nazi Germany, and how he is influenced by John Amery, the pro-Hitler son of Churchill Cabinet Minister Leo Amery, to join the Waffen-SS to fight against Stalin'... more »s Russia. Taken prisoner in 1945, he is saved from a Soviet POW/labour camp, by a Jewish doctor and her father to work for the Soviet version of a Free Germany. Thomas is then sent to the Soviet zone of Germany to join the People's Police. This eventually leads to a career as an intelligence officer in the notorious Stasi. Posing as a journalist, he is sent on various missions to London, Bonn, Vienna and, eventually, in 1989, California. Although this fact-based book can be read just as an adventure, it is suitable for adults interested in World War II, Cold War espionage and the life and loves of a spy; 'it is a book of reconciliation about the human condition.' Peter Johnson, former Reuter's Chief Correspondent in Bonn, Berlin and the BBC's man in Moscow says, 'terrific, a fascinating story.'« less