Cheap!
In postwar Europe, everything was so cheap, and yet so expensive.
A few cigarettes could buy you a night with a woman; a loaf of bread could make a girl lift her skirt.
The contrast between cheap and expensive was so stark. Human life was cheap; goods were precious.
"With the crew, the fleet can get moving. Although there are still German submarines in the Mediterranean, they usually don't attack Spanish merchant ships—especially empty ones. The problem is, after leaving Taranto, where do we go? Before the war, we could go through the Suez Canal into the Indian Ocean, but now the British have closed the canal. Without their permission, we can't get through at all."
Actually, Pierre had thought the same thing—this was even why he registered a Spanish company. After all, Spain's neutral stance had always been ambiguous, with both the Allies and Germany doing everything possible to keep it from joining the other side.
