The Sabre Squadron is Volume III of the novel sequence Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven, published in 1966. It was the third novel to be published in The Alms for Oblivion sequence and is also the third novel chronologically. The story takes place in and around Göttingen in 1952.
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