Len Deighton Libri

East is East and West is West - and they meet in Berlin He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wants to come over the wall. 'Brahms Four' was certain a high-ranking mole was set to betray him. There's only one Englishman he trusts any more: someone from the old days. So, Bernie Samson goes back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk The field is Berlin The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever....

Una sera, un giornalista amico di Len Deighton dichiarò che era impossibile immaginare cosa sarebbe successo se la Gran Bretagna avesse perso la Battaglia d'Inghilterra. Deighton, tuttavia, si oppose a tale affermazione, poiché i piani di occupazione di Hitler erano già noti. Questo lo portò a considerare l'idea di un romanzo ambientato in un'Inghilterra sotto dominio tedesco. Così nacque un'utopia negativa, un thriller di spionaggio ambientato nel 1941, dove i tedeschi hanno vinto e invaso l'isola, mentre gli americani non sono intervenuti. Il patto Molotov-Ribbentrop è ancora in vigore, e l'Europa è sotto il controllo russo-germanico. Churchill è scomparso, il re è prigioniero, e si parla di una resistenza timida. In questo contesto, Douglas Archer è un soprintendente di Scotland Yard che indaga con cautela, evitando un antinazismo eccessivo per non ostacolare le sue azioni. Un antiquario viene trovato ucciso, e Archer si ritrova coinvolto in un caso supervisionato da un ufficiale delle SS, Oskar Huth, che lo arruola come suo aiutante. Così, Archer si trova in un gigantesco gioco di spionaggio, mentre la speranza di un cambiamento continua a sopravvivere.

'I am going to cook you the best meal you have ever tasted in your life...' Harry Palmer to Sue Lloyd in `The Ipcress Files''Len was a great cook, a smashing cook. I learned a lot about food from playing Harry Palmer' Michael Caine

"Berlin Game begins with a plea from a British agent stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and return home to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed behind a London desk, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor among his colleagues in the KGB, likely one of his closest colleagues. The first in Deighton's acclaimed Game, Set, Match trilogy starring the talented-yet-jaded intelligence officer Bernard Samson, Berlin Game is a riveting story of betrayal and suspicion in the Second World War"--

The story of one Allied air raid over twenty-four hours remains one of the finest British war novels 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of ordinary people in the air and on the ground - from a young pilot to the inhabitants of a small town in the Ruhr - Bomber is an unforgettable portrayal of individuals caught up in the wreckage of war.

Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Spy Sinker is part of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, being preceded by Spy Hook and Spy Line. This trilogy is preceded by the Game, Set and Match trilogy and followed by the final Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy. Deighton's novel Winter (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory to some of the characters.

Despite the volumes written about World War II, many questions remain un-answered. In this balanced and thoughtful chronicle, historian and World War II expert Len Deighton dares to explore intriguing questions, including why the British weren't more prepared for the Blitz and why Hitler failed to thoroughly support his U-boat program. He also warns that we haven't yet learned the lessons of World War II, as ethnic cleansing, Middle East violence, and the widening gap between rich and poor still plague the world.

It was the battle that proved Great Britain was a vital force in World War II. It inspired Churchill's immortal phrase, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Filled with illustrations and many never-before-published photographs, this work explodes the myths of the battle between Britain and Germany's Luftwaffe. HC: Random House. (Military History)

The prelude to the classic spy trilogy, Game, Set and Match, that follows the fortunes of a German dynasty during two world wars. Winter takes us into a large and complex family drama, into the lives of two German brothers - both born close upon the turn of the century, both so caught up in the currents of history that their story is one with the story of their country, from the Kaiser's heyday through Hitler's rise and fall. A novel that rings powerfully true, a rich and remarkable portrait of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century

The third volume in the trilogy that began with FAITH and HOPE, in which Bernard Samson wonders how the Cold War will end for him and his family and whether he can continue to out-fox the upper-class desk pilots who have so cleverly dominated his life.