Len Deighton Livres

Sherlock Holmes vient à peine de déchiffrer un message codé le prévenant qu'un certain Douglas, de Birlstone Manor House, est en danger, qu'il apprend par l'inspecteur MacDonald de Scotland Yard que Douglas vient d'être sauvagement assassiné. Grâce au signataire du message, Sherlock Holmes sait que, derrière cette affaire, se trouve son ennemi juré : le professeur Moriarty, criminel génial et machiavélique. Accompagné de son fidèle Watson, Holmes se précipite à Birlstone. Par la richesse de son intrigue et de son action, La Vallée de la peur, où l'on voit Sherlock Holmes se mesurer avec Moriarty, adversaire en tous points à sa hauteur, est sans doute le meilleur roman de Conan Doyle.

'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.

This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor. Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, Blood, Tears and Folly is a sweeping, moving account of the political machinations, the strategy and tactics, the weapons and the men on both sides who created a world of devastation.

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.

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)

Len Deighton brings to bear all the skills of a best-selling novelist in this compelling study.In Blitzkrieg, Len Deighton turns a searchlight on the rise of Hitler, the lightning dash of his armies to the Channel coast in 1940 and on the debacle of Dunkirk, where — in a mistake that was to trigger his eventual downfall — a quarter of a million British troops were allowed to escape.