World War Two Thriller Collection
Len Deighton, Jack Higgins and Alistair Maclean
These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Winter first published in Great Britain by Hutchinson Ltd 1987
The Eagle Has Flown first published in Great Britain by Chapmans Publishers Ltd 1991
South by Java Head first published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1958
Winter copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 1987
Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2010
Cover designer’s note © Arnold Schwartzman 2010
The Eagle Has Flown © Jack Higgins 1991
South by Java Head © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1958
Winter cover design and photography © Arnold Schwartzman 2009
The Eagle Has Flown cover illustration © Nik Keevil 2013; cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013
South by Java Head cover illustration © headdesign 2008
E-bundle cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013
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Source ISBNs: 9780586068953, 9780007304653, 9780006172482
Ebook Edition © December 2013 ISBN: 9780007563401
Version: 2017-08-24
Table of Contents
Cover designer’s note
In attempting to come up with a concept for the cover design for Winter, Len Deighton’s saga of a Berlin family set in the first half of the twentieth century, I sought a striking image that would express the outcome of the Winter family’s story. I recalled a photograph in my wife Isolde’s family album of her father as a child dressed in a sailor suit standing beside his father. This image seemed to fit the time and place precisely. By tearing the photograph apart it implied the outcome of their relationship; and in a metaphorical sense it would also suggest what lay ahead for the city, and indeed the entire country. Sometimes the simplest of images are the most effective.
Arnold Schwartzman OBE RDI
Len Deighton
Winter
The Tragic Story of a Berlin Family 1899–1945
Contents
Cover designer’s note
In attempting to come up with a concept for the…
Introduction
This is how it started. It was Friday afternoon –…
Prologue
Winter entered the prison cell unprepared for the change that…
1899
‘A whole new century’
1900
A plot of land on the Obersalzberg
1906
‘The sort of thing they’re told at school’
1908
‘Conqueror of the air – hurrah!’
1910
The end of Valhalla
1914
War with Russia
1916
‘What kind of dopes are they to keep coming that way?’
1917
‘Not so loud, voices carry in the night’
1918
‘The war is won, isn’t it?’
1922
‘Berlin is so far away and I miss you so much’
1924
‘Who are those dreadful men?’
1925
‘You don’t have to be a mathematician’
1927
‘That’s all they ask in return’
1929
‘There is nothing safer than a zeppelin’
1930
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