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Bomber (Paperback)

by Len Deighton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (5 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007235038
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007235032
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,440 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for Bomber: 'The magnificent Bomber is rich with historical detail' The Times Praise for The Ipcress File: 'A spy story with a difference.' Observer 'A master of fictional espionage.' Daily Mail 'The Ipcress File helped change the shape of the espionage thriller...the prose is still as crisp and fresh as ever...there is an infectious energy about this book which makes it a joy to read, or re-read.' Daily Telegraph 'The self-conscious cool of Deighton's writing has dated in the best way possible...a stone-cold cold war classic.' Guardian Praise for Funeral in Berlin: 'A ferociously cool fable, even better than The Spy Who Came In From the Cold' New York Times 'A most impressive book in which the tension, more like a chronic ache than a sharp stab of pain, never lets go.' Evening Standard

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This is the classic documentary war novel, now back in print due to strong demand from fans of Len Deighton. "Bomber" follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama, in the air and on the ground, in Britain and in Germany. In its documentary style, it is unique. In its emotional power, it is overwhelming. Len Deighton has been hugely acclaimed both as a novelist and as an historian. In "Bomber", he has combined both talents to produce a masterpiece. As Max Hastings observed, Deighton captured a time and a mood in his books - 'To those of us who were in our twenties in the 1960s, his books seemed the coolest, funkiest, most sophisticated things we'd ever read' - and his books have now deservedly become classics.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable horror story, 9 Jan 2006
By Stephen A. Haines (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bomber (Paperback)
This book is as appropriate today as when it was first published. As an account of a single Lancaster night raid, it's without peer in portraying the lives of people enduring the horrors of war in any age. Deighton's skill at depicting characters has few matches, and the scope of this book, set in both Germany and England [as well as the skies above both] only enhances his writing abilities. Following the lives of bomber and night fighter crews as well as those living under bombardment, he shows how meaningless war is to the most hawkish adherents. It's not possible to read this book without being moved by how well Deighton sees into the minds and hearts of his characters. None of them are false or overdrawn.

'Strategic' bombing was implemented to maintain pressure on the Nazis in the hope of forcing sufficient discontent among the population. John Dos Passos once wrote on the futility of using 'terror' bombing to bring surrender of a people whose loved ones were killed and their homes destroyed. Bomber shows how barren this strategy truly was. It didn't work when London was blitzed. It certainly failed when even target cities were missed completely due to unforeseen circumstances. Deighton takes us step by step from the preparation of the aircraft and the defenses countering it through the raid and its aftermath. His portrayal of the 'military mind' is disconcerting when we reflect that the same attitudes prevail with little or no evidence of improvement. This book should be brought back on the active list and read by anyone seeing armed conflict as a mechanism of policy. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly great book, 26 Nov 2004
This review is from: Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an RAF Bomber Over Germany on the Night of June 31st, 1943 (Mass Market Paperback)
Kingsley Amis called this one of the best ten books of the 20th century, and I'm not going to argue. Deighton normally writes agreeable spy and war fiction, but this is on a higher plane (no pun intended). The story of Creaking Door, Joe for King, The Volkswagen and all the other Lancasters flying out of Warley Fen seems to have tapped a deep root of emotion in Deighton, leading him to write a book that for sheer emotional engagement has few parallels. He writes above himself consistently, making the characters live - and die - for you in a way few if any writers could equal. The story is by turns amusing, interesting, and in the end horrifying. I find it hard to believe that anyone could read this without being deeply moved. If Deighton could write like this all the time, he would be acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of the age; he never reaches such heights in any other work, but I for one am glad he did it once.

The audiobook of the 1995 BBC radio adaptation is (if possible) even better, being quite simply one of the finest examples of radio drama ever produced; Deighton's powerful story is interwoven with comments from real veterans of the bombing campaign (British and German) and the terrific acting, incredible atmosphere and superb adaptation combine into a solid gold masterpiece. Buy both book and CD, and enhance the quality of your library.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars If audiobooks won prizes..., 29 Mar 2004
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This review is from: Bomber: A BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Tom Baker & Cast (BBC Radio Collection) (Audio Cassette)
This really is the best dramatisation of a book I've ever listened to. At first I thought 'Another WWII tale - can there be anything here I haven't heard before'? Well, there was. Most people know of the horrendous suffering caused by bombing cities in WWII, but I hadn't realised until I listened to this what an ordeal it was to be in the bombers themselves. As one airman says, 'If my mother had known I'd go through this she would never have had me'. The story is gripping from start to finish, with just enough complexity to keep you interested, but not so much that you get confused. The characters, both English and German, are very well voiced, and the sound effects contribute to the story - it's one of those rare adaptations where having the story dramatised really adds something to it. Be warned though - this really should carry a '15' certificate as the descriptions of the effects of the raid, and the German attempts to shoot down the bombers, are almost unbearable to listen to - but you can't stop listening because you want to find out how it ends. At the beginning, Field Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, in charge of Bomber Command, states 'I will level the whole of Germany if it is necessary'. By the end, you still can't decide one way or the other if you agree with him or not, the dramatisation captures the utter pointlessness, cruelty and horror of war so well. Should one sympathise with the innocent German civilians - who support a vile regime experimenting on concentration camp victims? Or the allies, willing to sacrifice hundreds of young men and innocent civilians in order to secure victory? Listen to the tape and you'll see what I mean - it should be required listening for anyone studying WWII.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgetable
I first read this novel in the early 1970's and have never forgotten it. For some years I have been looking for it in the second hand market (I lent my book and it never... Read more
Published 5 months ago by L. C. Timewell

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be Amazed
How truly delighted I am to see another reviewer's reference to Kingsley Amis supposedly having considered this to be one of the ten best books of the 20th Century. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jonathan Posner

4.0 out of 5 stars Events
Clever and evocative. Twenty-four hours of a fictitious - but rigorously plausible - bombing raid on Germany. Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Edwards

5.0 out of 5 stars Great story of WWll bombing raid
This is a wonderfully written, vivid account of a single night bombing raid by a British squadron in WWll. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Tarpig

5.0 out of 5 stars A few words about "Bomber"
Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an RAF Bomber Over Germany on the Night of June 31st, 1943
Purchased via Amazon, This is a book I have wanted to re-read after... Read more
Published 11 months ago by D. Brooks

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, Highly Recommended Reading
This is as good an anti-war work, and as good a study of the RAF bomber offensive against Germany, as you will find. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Geoffrey Millar

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I have read
This, quite frankly, is one of the best books I have ever read. Be prepared to start and finish it in one day. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2006 by Alastair Campbell

5.0 out of 5 stars Bomber
Len Deighton's "Bomber" is a searing anti-war novel and his own views about the futility and pointlessness of the Allied air raids against Germany (the Luftwaffe having proved in... Read more
Published on 6 May 2006 by Mr. S. Nunn

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite simply the best novel in its genre.
Anyone who has ever wondered what it was like to go to war with Bomber Command during World War Two should read this book. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving book about the disaster caused by human error in war
This is an exceptionally moving book which highlights the dangers faced by our own bomber crews and the German population in WW2. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2001 by paulinerigby@yahoo.com

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