A book which is both exciting and eye-opening. For a book first published in 1940, the sympathy for the German people is extraordinary. And the mentions of anti-Semitism and concentration camps show that some people at least knew something of what was going on in Europe under the Nazis.
The school scenes are almost incidental. There's a secret document to be hidden, Nazi spies, a frantic dash over the mountains to Switzerland, Joey's triplets' arrival, a plane crash, and the return of old friends thought to he dead. But in among all this, it's good to see the Chalet School itself reestablished and going strong.