![]() ![]() Can he, with Pamela’s help, stop them before England falls? As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. ![]() ![]() But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. Official Synopsis from Goodreads: World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. ![]()
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![]() When dealing with uncertainty, “the brain spends a lot of effort at the beginning of a habit looking for something – a cue – that offers a hint as to which pattern to use.”
![]() ![]() ![]() He would have to be both fox, knowing everything, and hedgehog, knowing only one big thing-the essence of conservatism. He would have to be historian, biographer, and philosopher, all at the same time. He would have to have a photographic memory that could call up key passages from dozens of books and authors. He would have to possess a transcendent mind like Einstein’s that sees connections where others cannot. He would have to be a master synthesizer of politics, philosophy, and culture spanning almost two centuries. ![]() The possibility that one person could write The Conservative Mind, a sweeping history of conservative thought in America and Great Britain from the mid-eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, seems unlikely. This essay appears in the Fall 2017 issue of Modern Age. ![]() |