Winter: The Tragic Story of a Berlin Family 1899-1945

Winter: The Tragic Story of a Berlin Family 1899-1945

Len Deighton

Language: English

Pages: 624

ISBN: 1402795009

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


 In this gripping prelude to the Game, Set, Match trilogy, spies aren't born--they're made. Winter tells the tale of a Berlin family divided. Two brothers, Peter and Paul Winter, came of age during the Great War; then as Hitler's power spreads through Germany threatening a new era of violence, the brothers are driven apart by differing morals and ambitions. Meticulously researched, this allegory of a nation at odds with itself paints a brilliant portrait of the German zeitgeist during those turbulent years, and provides a powerful depiction of the rise of the Third Reich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

too, hate the communists, and despise the pseudo-intellectuals and their café-society Marxism. There are many ways in which I support Hitler; why must he pursue this insane vendetta against us?’ ‘I don’t know,’ said Peter. ‘And shall I tell you something, Peter, old friend. When I switched on the radio last Saturday and heard that our soldiers had marched into the Rhineland, I exulted. He was right to take our sacred German soil back from the French.’ ‘I suppose so,’ said Peter. He was always

the leak in a bicycle tyre by holding it in a tin bath of water. ‘Leave her to me, Winkel,’ said Horner, waving away assistance. Winkel always made sure that Horner had his favourite, Pola, and Horner liked to look after her. He liked the stables, the smells of sweat and dung and old harness. He liked to see ex-Sergeant Major Winkel, too. Winkel’s comfortable existence confirmed for Alex Horner that the army looked after its own. Bernau was outside the city limits of Gross-Berlin, half an hour

makes a lot of money selling his expertise. You should bear him in mind, Harry, when you are making Peter toe the line.’ Winter was not amused. ‘I’m not talking about scientists. I don’t want a musician in the family.’ ‘Too bohemian?’ ‘I’m not fond of the Wislicenys. People like that should not encourage the troublemakers.’ ‘They are good people, Harry.’ He wanted to calm Winter’s anger. ‘And the three Wisliceny girls are the prettiest in all Berlin. The youngest one, Lisl, would be a match

But the same officers who applauded Brand’s bravery did not want to share their mess with this coarse-accented villager, and Brand soon found himself amongst strangers. And this time he was not even in the cavalry. It was dark and cold, and there was rain in the air. The wind was singing in the massed barbed wire that filled no-man’s-land. As Pauli and Alex plodded their way along the duckboards which made a slatted floor for the deep trench, both were thinking of Brand. The Leutnant saved his

ambitious to be a soldier. He plays politics.’ Esser looked round to be sure he wasn’t overheard. ‘I went to the Führer and told him what was happening.’ ‘The Führer? Hitler?’ ‘I told him that Röhm is looking for an opportunity to take over. With the Führer in prison, Röhm could take control of everything.’ ‘Perhaps Röhm will be sentenced to a long prison term, too.’ ‘It’s possible. But Röhm has remarkable friends and supporters: in the army, in the Bavarian government, and in the judiciary,

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