Operation Heartbreak
- Published: 5 February 2026
- ISBN: 9781837312108
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
[A work of] jewel-like brevity and intensity
New York Herald Tribune
Operation Heartbreak pulls off the trick of revealing the fascinating hidden workings of the British War Office within a supremely moving and well-wrought tale... Its ending is as unexpected as it is affecting
Wall Street Journal
A first novel of great distinction . . . a delightful tragi-comedy of military manners. It has been constructed by Duff Cooper with a truly dramatic economy and told with humour, deep feeling and considerable skill
Daily Telegraph
As creditable, as surprising, as abundantly and elegantly good, as anything else Duff Cooper turned his mind and hand to
Michael Hofmann
It is the novel I enjoyed more than any other in the immediate post-war years, and one I have read many times since with undiminished pleasure and growing admiration for Duff Cooper's skill. It is a story of why men go to war, it is also a heart-wrenching love story; a wonderful novel by a masterly writer that should be on everyone's bookshelf
Nina Bawden