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Len Deighton
Edward Milward-Oliver
Published
1985
by Sammler, Distributed through Oliver in (S.l.), Maidstone
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Limited ed. of 375 numbered copies, signed by Len Deighton.
Statement | Edward Milward-Oliver ; with a foreword by Julian Symons. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | Z8221.2/ |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | 64p. ; |
Number of Pages | 64 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL15330087M |
ISBN 10 | 0948368004 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 13669490 |
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Born in London, Len Deighton served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, ‘The Ipcress File’, which was published in Berlin Game by Len Deighton. Digital Rights Management (DRM) The publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it.
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Len Deighton grew up in Marylebone, London; born to a chauffeur and mechanic (his father) and a part time cook (his mother), Len has often spoken of witnessing the arrest of Anna Wolkoff, a Nazi Spy, and the impact it had with regards to sparking his interest in spy stories at the tender age of Len Deighton is an English author of spy novels and cookbooks.
He is best known for his Harry Palmer novels, including The Ipcress File. The Ipcress File was adapted into a film starring Michael Caine. Deighton is also an expert on the history of the British military, having written several non-fiction books on it. Len Deighton: Three Complete Novels- Berlin Game / Mexico Set / London Match.
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This isn’t actually science fiction, just a sort of “What if Nazi Germany won World War 2 and occupied Great Britain?” The tale centers around Scotland Yard Inspector /5(20). Len Deighton is the author of more than Len Deighton book books of fiction and nonfiction, including, Funeral in Berlin, as well as his internationally acclaimed histories of World War II.
Born in London, he served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art, which later elected him a Senior Fellow. New 'tribute' to classic Len Deighton thriller cover brings accusations of plagiarism Publisher faces criticism from designer's widow after 'shameful' mimicking of Raymond Hawkey's landmark book.
XPD is a spy novel by Len Deighton, published inand set inroughly contemporaneous with the time it was concerns a plan by a group of former SS officers to seize power in West Germany, in which they intend to publish some wartime documents about a (fictional) secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler in Juneand the efforts of a British agent, Boyd Published: Hutchinson (UK), Knopf (US).
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The BBC broadcast a five-episode miniseries adaptation of SS-GB in. Len Deighton is known primarily as a thriller and spy fiction novelist and this site has a page devoted to all of his fiction works. There are dedicated pages covering his non-fiction books, his food & cooking books, and a section on books to which Deighton has contributed in some way, such as through a foreword or introduction, or which feature him heavily.
Len Deighton has written or contributed to over one hundred books. On the books section of the website you'll find out about every one of them and see images of them - from the well-known novels like Funeral in Berlin and Mexico Set, to lesser known non-fiction works like his book on airship disasters, called Airshipwreck, or his first e-book, James Bond: My Bond and Eventful Search For His.
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After the spooky full-scale fantasy of SS-GB, Deighton's new fiction-history premisethat Churchill met secretly with Hitler in and almost arranged a highly dishonorable peaceseems very small potatoes; and the plotting this time is pretty thinly conventional all around.
But the playful Deighton approach to criss-crossing espionage, never less than diverting, is at its most. Abandoning present-day intrigues (MAMista, Spy Sinker, etc.), Deighton journeys back to WW II (SS-GB and XPD)—and a terrific return it is: a rich drama of heroes and villains awaiting German General Erwin Rommel's attack on Cairo—the ``city of gold.'' The plots here are many, but central among them is the attempt by Special Investigation Branch Major Bert Cutler to unmask the spy who's.
Bernard Samson a middle aged kind of jaded character that is an intelligence officer that works for the elite intelligence agency known as SIS (Secret Intelligence Service). This agency is also reffered to as The Department in this fast paced three trilogy series of novels by Len Deighton.
Len Deighton's classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy - later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic s film starring Michael Caine. The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton's first novel, it was his first best seller. The first 25 mins or so of the radio adaptation of Len Deighton's wartime novel 'Bomber' based in on a fictional series of events surrounding men and women on both sides.
Len Deighton Credit: Phillip Coulter He did two and a half years’ National Service in the RAF, worked as a railway clerk, a BOAC steward and a press photographer, and studied at the Royal 4/5.
Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whoseprotagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic s film starring Michael Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton’s first novel, it was his first Brand: HarperCollins UK.
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Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. Len Deighton is mainly famous for writing novels about espionage. This book and a companion book were written for his own private interest in an attempt to understand the Second World War.
The book is basically an attempt to explain Hitler's victory in in the Western by: