How long does it take to read SS-GB?
Nazi-occupied Britain, 1941
SS-GB by Len Deighton takes about 7 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 402 pages, about 110,550 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle. This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Espionage/Intrigue, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, war & military
