{"product_id":"blitzkrieg-len-deighton","title":"Blitzkrieg (Len Deighton)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... \u003ci\u003eBlitzkrieg\u003c\/i\u003e is full of insights' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, \u003ci\u003eBlitzkrieg\u003c\/i\u003e sets out the technical thinking behind the attack and the weapons that made it possible. It is a compelling, detailed account of Europe's darkest hour. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What Deighton did for the Battle of Britain in \u003ci\u003eFighter\u003c\/i\u003e he has done for the land-war here ... A rattlingly good yarn' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLen Deighton\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e.  The enormous success of his first spy novel, \u003ci\u003eThe IPCRESS File \u003c\/i\u003e(1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades.  These varied from historical fiction (\u003ci\u003eBomber\u003c\/i\u003e, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (\u003ci\u003eSS-GB\u003c\/i\u003e) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (\u003ci\u003eFighter, Blitzkrieg \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlood, Tears and Folly\u003c\/i\u003e).  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 432 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65880316313949,"sku":"K089065465","price":13.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8906546500001A.jpg?v=1789015925","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/blitzkrieg-len-deighton","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}