Len Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing. He had a varied career, including as a pastry cook, waiter, co-editor of a magazine, teacher and air steward before writing his first novel in 1962: The IPCRESS File.[1][2] He continued to produce what his biographer John Reilly considers "stylish, witty, well-crafted novels" in spy fiction,[3] including three trilogies and a prequel featuring Bernard Samson.[4][a]
Deighton authored two television scripts, the first of which was Long Past Glory in 1963; he also wrote a film script, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). His long-held interest in cooking—his mother had been a professional chef and instilled a love for cuisine in her son—led to an illustrated cookery column in the Sunday newspaper, The Observer, for two years. The work was collected into two later books, Len Deighton's Action Cook Book and Où est le garlic (both 1965); he subsequently wrote several other cookery books.[5] Deighton has produced several other works of non-fiction, including a study of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a history of the airship, Second World War military history and a short e-book about James Bond.[6][7]
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^Reilly 1980, p. 449.
^ abJackson & Gwilliam 1999, pp. 6–8.
^Jackson & Gwilliam 1999, pp. 6, 11, 14.
^Jackson & Gwilliam 1999, pp. 10–12.
^Burton 2016, p. 121.
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LenDeighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing. He had a varied...
World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster. Deighton, Len (1993). Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New...
Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2006. Deighton, Len (1985) [1983]. Berlin Game (1st Ballantine Books ed.). New York: Ballantine...
Secret War. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-84415-773-0. Deighton, Len (2012). James Bond: My Long and Eventful Search for His Father (e-book)...
the spy in these novels is closer to the out-of-place bureaucrats of LenDeighton than to the James Bond model. He also mentions that when he began writing...
heyday, in the 1970s, Hone was favourably compared with writers such as LenDeighton, Eric Ambler and John le Carré. Hone was born in London in 1937, son...
for the television series Game, Set and Match. Based on the novels by LenDeighton, this tells the story of an intelligence officer (Holm) who finds a security...
Russia: The Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front. Bristol: Crecy Books, 1985. Deighton, Len. Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk. London:...
Dark, set during the Cold War. Duns's novels are influenced by Fleming, LenDeighton and John le Carré; his debut novel, Free Agent (2009), was one of the...
"keeping every man and woman tuned to a high pitch of readiness". Historian LenDeighton stated that on 10 July Churchill advised the War Cabinet that invasion...
McCarthy". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 17 (3): 487–501. JSTOR 27550441. Deighton, Len (2008). Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. New York:...
other genres (Django/Zorro), literary adaptations of well-known authors (LenDeighton, Bret Easton Ellis), and campaigning to direct in major film franchises...
deutschen Panzerwaffe 1916 bis 1945. He also wrote the foreword to LenDeighton's Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk. Iron Cross...
vanquished foe an opportunity of inflicting on him a resounding defeat. LenDeighton and some other writers have called the German amphibious plans a "Dunkirk...
(Michael Joseph, 1979) ISBN 0-7181-1603-8 The Battle of Britain (with LenDeighton) (Jonathan Cape, 1980) ISBN 0-224-01826-4 Das Reich: Resistance and the...
Reinhardt 1992, p. 227. Milward 1964. Rotundo 1986. Glantz 2001, p. 26. Deighton, Len (1993). Blood, Tears and Folly. London: Pimlico. p. 479. ISBN 978-0-7126-6226-0...
Crichton was inspired to write it after reading The IPCRESS File by LenDeighton while studying in England. Crichton says he was "terrifically impressed"...
against Russia, 1939, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-1160-7 Deighton, Len (1979), Blitzkrieg: From the rise of Hitler to the fall of Dunkirk,...
(2005). Goodwood. Over the Battlefield. Leo Cooper. ISBN 1-84415-153-0. Deighton, Len (1980). Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk....
shorter articles by Alan Aldridge, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Andy Bridge, LenDeighton, Alasdair Gray, Bryan Kneale, David Pearson and twenty other Penguin...
Samples. p. 45 "Nazis 'gassed Hitler's relative'". BBC. 19 January 2005. Deighton, Len (1987). Winter: a novel of a Berlin family. New York: Knopf. p. 464...
Lessing, Chaim Potok, Charles Portis, Salman Rushdie, John Gardner, LenDeighton, John le Carré, Ray Bradbury, Elia Kazan, Margaret Drabble, Michael Crichton...
titled "Reuben" and "Ruben's Train" (Traditional) by Ray Charles, the Deighton Family, the Dillards, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Tony Furtado, Beppe...
Versions B-E. London, UK: Patrick Stevens. ISBN 978-0-85059-106-4. Deighton, Len (1977). Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London, UK:...
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