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Автор: Simon Tolkien
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      The Inspector Trave Trilogy: Orders from Berlin, The Inheritance, The King of Diamonds

      Simon Tolkien

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      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Orders from Berlin

       The Inheritance

       The King of Diamonds

       About the Author

       Also by Simon Tolkien

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

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      SIMON TOLKIEN

       Orders from Berlin

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       Dedication

       For my father and for my son

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Berchtesgaden

       Acknowledgements

SEPTEMBER 1940

       I

      Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence division of the SS, stood to one side, a few yards away from the group of generals and admirals gathered around Adolf Hitler. An unfamiliar figure in his eyeglasses, the Führer was standing, looking down at a large map of Europe spread out across an enormous Teutonic oak table that had been moved for the purpose of the meeting into the centre of the main hall of the Berghof, Hitler’s summer residence high in the Bavarian Alps. One by one, the military leaders took turns to brief their commander-in-chief on the state of preparation for Operation Sea Lion, the high command’s code name for the invasion of England. It was due to be launched any day now according to timetables that had been agreed upon at previous conferences held during the summer either here or at the Reich Chancellery