PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Len Deighton is the author of over thirty bestsellers of carefully researched fiction and non-fiction. His history writing was encouraged by A. J. P. Taylor and his books are noted for the picture they provide of the German side of the fighting as well as that of the Allies. His books include Fighter- The True Story of the Battle of Britain and Blood, Tears and Folly- An Objective Look at World War II, both published by Pimlico.
The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world all the while I was reading, and now that piece of the past is a piece in my mind. -- HRF Keating * The Times * He writes, as usual, with authority and a superb sense of period. * Daily Telegraph * It is a novel of memory, satisfying on every imaginable level, but truly astonishing in its recreation of a time and place through minute detail ... The only way you could know more about flying a P-51 Mustang, after reading this book, is to have flown one. * Washington Post *
