The narrator titles the next section of her confession "Aircraft Types." She says that she and Maddie flew to France together.The thought of aircraft leads the narrator to her friend, Maddie, whose identity papers she has instead of her own.She's supposed to be giving up airfield locations and types of aircraft in use, but she says she really doesn't know any of this stuff.The narrator is terrified of how the Nazis will execute her when they're done with her: she suspects kerosene and a match.Von Linden has a secretary/assistant named Fräulein Engel, who the narrator says can translate her English account into German.Her interrogator's name is SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden, and she quickly compares him to Captain Hook.They had to take on false identities and be really good with language and code.) (Quick historical note: undercover radio operators worked throughout Nazi-occupied Europe to get information to the Allies, who were based in Great Britain, which still hadn't been occupied by the Nazis.She's writing this confession because it's clearly the easiest way out, and she's supposed to be giving her captors information pertinent to the British War Effort. The first thing the narrator does is confess that she is a coward and has given up eleven sets of wireless code in exchange for getting her clothes back from the Nazi officer who has been interrogating her.We'll leave the letters alone for now because, well, we don't yet know what they stand for. We know from the narrator's heading, "Ormaie 8.XI.43 JB-S," that she's in the French city of Ormaie and she's writing on November (XI), 8 (8), 1943 (43).(It's called "occupied France" because the Nazis are occupying it, quite against everyone else's will.) In the first chapter, or the first dated entry in the narrator's confession, we learn that the narrator is a British spy who has been captured by the Nazis in occupied France.So fasten your seatbelts, and get ready to bounce back and forth between the present and the past.
Heads up, Shmoopsters: Most of this narrative doesn't occur in linear time.
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