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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Oxford World's Classics) by Childers, Erskine; Trotter, David; Trotter, David is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds in excitement as two young men on a sailing holiday discover a German plot to invade England. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context. - ;`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for
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- Author
- Childers, Erskine; Trotter, David; Trotter, David
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press;[Andrews]
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192833471
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (279 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Das Rätsel der Sandbank: Ein Bericht des Geheimdienstes (1988)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Classics) (2011)
- The riddle of the sands: A record of secret service recently achieved (1984)
- The Riddle of the Sands : a Record of Secret Service (1995)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Classic Crime) (1955)
- The Riddle of the Sands (Wordsworth Collection) (Wordsworth Collection) (1995)
- The Riddle Of The Sands. A Record Of Secret Service. By Erskine Childers. Forew. By Erskine Hamilton Childers. Introd. By The Earl Of Longford. (1995)
- The Riddle of the Sands : a Record of Secret Service (1984)
- The Riddle of the Sands (Crime Classics) (1995)
- Das Raetsel der Sandbank. (1988)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Oxford World's Classics) (1998)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic (Penguin Classics) (2011)
- Das Rätsel der Sandbank: Ein Bericht des Geheimdienstes (1903)
- The Riddle of the Sands (Crime Classics) (1903)
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- Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Popular Classics) (1995)
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