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The characters and plot are nothing that stands out, but that's all part of the subtle English charm of the book. It is a very, very gray novel. Even the Nazis refuse to be cast as genocidal monsters; merely self-interested conquerors who are taking advantage of the moment to loot everything not nailed down. And of course, there is little honor or glory in collaboration--even collaboration which might soften the iron grip of the Third Reich. In 2017 the BBC adapted Deighton's novel SS-GB for a five-part miniseries, broadcast in one-hour episodes; Sam Riley played the lead role of Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer. [80] In 1995 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a real-time dramatisation of Bomber. The drama was in four broadcasts, each of two hours, from 2:30pm to midnight, threaded through the station's schedule of news and current affairs. [81] [82] Legacy and influence [ edit ] SPOILER): Both books involve neat additional twists on history - Fatherland's detective is trying to expose the Holocaust, which in this story is still a well-kept German secret; while SS-GB involves Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb, which they could then use to invade America. (END SPOILER) Burton, Alan (2016). Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. London: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-5587-6. Deighton describes people in love, people hating each other, people that are experts at what they do and people that are novices or just incompetent. The common factor is that they all clash in the skies over western Europe, or on the ground of western Europe if you are on the wrong side of explosives.

Hines, Claire (2018). The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-1616-1.UPDATE: Just finished the very good 2017 BBC "SS-GB" miniseries, available on Hoopla, which may or may not be available through your library. Don't remember how the book ends, so can't vouch for how closely this follows the original, but it was well worth the 4.5 hour investment, even if it did sometimes proceed at the slower pace of most all BBC productions.

Dawson Scott, Robert (7 January 2006b). "A class act, not a class warrior". The Times. (subscription required) Oberleutnant Victor Löwenherz, an aristocratic Luftwaffe night fighter pilot and his fellow crew members It was no use for [him] to scream apologies; there was no one aboard to hear him. He outlived any of his crew, for from 16,000 feet the wireless operator falling at 120 mph (the terminal velocity for his weight) reached the ground ninety seconds later. He made an indentation twelve inches deep. This represented a deceleration equivalent to 450 times the force of gravity. He split open like a slaughtered animal and died instantly. [The pilot], still strapped into the pilot’s seat and aghast at his incontinence, hit the earth (along with the front of the fuselage, two Rolls-Royce engines and most of the main spar) some four minutes after that. To him it seemed like four hours… Want to know how the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum is progressing? Find out more here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/Masters, A (26 October 1985). "Deighton still the master of the spy thriller". The Courier-Mail. p.21. As for characters, the English police are distant and unforgivably dull. "Archer of The Yard" is for all intents and purposes an AI police robot in human form, just without the warmth and charm one associates with robots. Deighton’s biographer and longtime friend, Edward Milward-Oliver, points out that this early adoption of word processing was consistent with Deighton’s long-standing interest in technology. And he remained a computer pioneer. Mortally afraid of losing text to power outages, Deighton had one of the first uninterrupted power supplies custom-made for the Olivetti word processor he moved on to next. (Today he favors Windows laptops.) Len Deighton". Contemporary Authors. Gale. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016 . Retrieved 25 March 2016. (subscription required)