Hotel Tiberias : A Tale of Two Grandfathers Book

This is a wonderful premise for a book and it should have been totally engrossing.

However, there were several things that detracted from my enjoyment. As ever, the book was far too long at 690 pages. I seem to find this more and more now, that authors are rambling on, and their publishers and agents, to whom they always give their undying thanks, are too scared to tell them to cut 300 pages.

The other main issue is that the central storyline in the blurb is described as the relationship between Churchill and Burgess. However, there are actually lots of relationships between the six to eight main protagonists, and that was too many for the story.

I did learn a lot about the immediate prelude to war, which history has sort of skipped over. I really felt this book could have been so much better if it focused on the relationship between Churchill and Burgess, with the secondary storyline focusing on Churchill and Chamberlain's hate / hate relationship.