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Bomber

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241493717

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

Bomber

RELEASED 06/05/2021

'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings

'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times

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.

'A superbly mobilised tragedy of the machines which men make to destroy themselves. Masterly' Spectator

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241493717

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Probably the best and certainly the most accurate popular novel about the Second World War in the air.

    John Sutherland, London Review of Books

  • A massively different novel... the effect is - quite literally - devastating.

    Sunday Times

  • A massive and superbly mobilised tragedy of the machines which men make to destroy themselves. Masterly and by far Mr Deighton's best.

    Douglas Hurd, The Spectator

  • A magnificent story ... the characters lean out of the pages.

    Daily Mirror

  • What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail ... and sure sense of place.

    Andy Solomon, Washington Post

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About the Author

Len Deighton

Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré.

Len Deighton

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