"Deighton's best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation." -The New York Times Book Review It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to...

Deighton explores and analyzes some of the myths and realities of the war, the mistakes and the achievements, the ironies and failures--of intelligence, technology, planning, and policies--of both the Allied and the Axis powers.

The devastating "lightning war", a new form of warfare unleashed by the Nazis in the opening months of World War II.

Len Deighton explores and analyzes some of the myths and realities of World War II, the mistakes and the achievements, the ironies and failures--of intelligence, technology, planning and policies--of both the Allied and the Axis powers.