London, June 1948
London, June 1948Exactly one year after their wedding ceremony, Tom’s beautiful wife had given birth to a baby boy. They’d named him Thomas after his father, in the hopes his parents would reconcile with the fact that he’d married a German woman.
He’d visited them twice in the past year when he’d been on overnight missions to Northolt. His mother, though, remained adamant that she didn’t want to know anything of his “other family” as she liked to call Ursula and their children. She wouldn’t even let him rave about Evie.
As the tensions in Berlin between the former ally Stalin and the Western victorious powers ratcheted up, Tom decided it was high time his parents came to terms with their daughter-in-law. If the Cold War escalated, the British might have to evacuate Ber
