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Len Deighton


Len Deighton is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction including internationally acclaimed histories of World War II.

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Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain
Written by Len Deighton

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Pimlico | History - Great Britain
978-1-84595-106-1 (1-84595-106-9)

April 1, 2008 | $23.95



Len Deighton’s bestselling history of the Battle of Britain is generally regarded as the finest there is.

“Brilliant analysis . . . provides a detailed account, fuller than any previously written.”–A.J.P. Taylor

Len Deighton’s skill as a novelist is used to show how the human factor influenced every twist and turn of...


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Blood, Tears and Folly
Written by Len Deighton

Trade Paperback | 672 pages | Vintage Books | History - Great Britain; History - Ireland; History - Military - Nuclear Warfare
978-0-09-952049-8 (0-09-952049-4)

December 4, 2007 | $23.95






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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
Written by Len Deighton

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Pimlico | History
978-1-84413-935-4 (1-84413-935-2)

February 27, 2007 | $23.95



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...


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Berlin Game
Written by Len Deighton

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-47177-2 (0-345-47177-6)

March 1, 1995 | $28.00



When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once active in the field but now anchored to a London desk, to undertake the crucial rescue. But soon, Samson is confronted with evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues. And to...