Declarations of War
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1402790600 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mr Deighton is really something special.” --Sunday Times
A great bunch of short stories A great bunch of short stories.. War Stories by a War Expert Len Deighton (LD)'s late debut at the age of War Stories by a War Expert Alfred J. Kwak Len Deighton (LD)'s late debut at the age of 40 and his worldwide success with 'The Ipcress File' in 1962 inspired him to write some 40 more books. Most of them dealt with espionage, incl. three trilogies with the same protagonist/hero, and some on French cooking. A number of highly-acclaimed books of LD have focussed on WW II: 'Bomber' describes the terrifying risks accepted by hastily-trained flight crews primed to disable wartime-Germany (55.000 died); 'Winter' is a warm, convincing German family history from 1899 to 1945; 'SS/GB' a plausible account of what life would hav. 0 and his worldwide success with 'The Ipcress File' in 1962 inspired him to write some War Stories by a War Expert Alfred J. Kwak Len Deighton (LD)'s late debut at the age of 40 and his worldwide success with 'The Ipcress File' in 1962 inspired him to write some 40 more books. Most of them dealt with espionage, incl. three trilogies with the same protagonist/hero, and some on French cooking. A number of highly-acclaimed books of LD have focussed on WW II: 'Bomber' describes the terrifying risks accepted by hastily-trained flight crews primed to disable wartime-Germany (55.000 died); 'Winter' is a warm, convincing German family history from 1899 to 1945; 'SS/GB' a plausible account of what life would hav. 0 more books. Most of them dealt with espionage, incl. three trilogies with the same protagonist/hero, and some on French cooking. A number of highly-acclaimed books of LD have focussed on WW II: 'Bomber' describes the terrifying risks accepted by hastily-trained flight crews primed to disable wartime-Germany (55.000 died); 'Winter' is a warm, convincing German family history from 1899 to 19War Stories by a War Expert Alfred J. Kwak Len Deighton (LD)'s late debut at the age of 40 and his worldwide success with 'The Ipcress File' in 1962 inspired him to write some 40 more books. Most of them dealt with espionage, incl. three trilogies with the same protagonist/hero, and some on French cooking. A number of highly-acclaimed books of LD have focussed on WW II: 'Bomber' describes the terrifying risks accepted by hastily-trained flight crews primed to disable wartime-Germany (55.000 died); 'Winter' is a warm, convincing German family history from 1899 to 1945; 'SS/GB' a plausible account of what life would hav. 5; 'SS/GB' a plausible account of what life would hav. Jesus, Deighton can Write! Patrick L. Boyle I've read almost all his fiction and his non-fiction. He's a superbly interesting historian of WWII. And his many Bernard Samson books are the best spy books ever written - vastly preferable to the dour and depressing John Le Carre books.I haven't finished this yet. I seem to have misplaced it somewhere after I read the first couple stories. I think my three favorite writers as of now are Deighton, Bernard Cornwell and Tom Wolfe.
Deighton portrays human conflict through a series of devastating experiences and shows how great deeds are often but the smallest thread in the large fabric of war. . This dazzling array of stories, Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, spans 23 centuries of warfare.Deighton's gripping tales range from Hannibal's march on Rome--when strange, moving objects terrorize the troops of one of the toughest, most skilful armies in history--to a belittled Civil War general's efforts to get his men to face the Confederate army; to the dawn skies above an artillery-blasted Frenc