Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Deighton, Len

 
9780241505236: Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241505232 ISBN 13: 9780241505236
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, Guardian

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.

'If he had never written a word of fiction Deighton would still be remembered for his scholarly and merciless history of the Second World War, Blood, Tears and Folly' Peter Millar, The Times

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241505232
ISBN 13 
9780241505236
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
832
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