Book· 1978· Thriller

SS-GB

by Len Deighton

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Fatherland

Book · 1992

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A critics' reading. Fatherland is often said to owe its method to Len Deighton's SS-GB: a detective in a victorious Nazi state whose ordinary murder case leads him to a buried state secret.

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  • World War II

An alternate history in which Germany won the Battle of Britain and occupies the country in 1941, written by Len Deighton with the detail of his histories of the air war.

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SS-GB

For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle. This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it. SS-GB is an alternative history novel by Len Deighton, set in the United Kingdom conquered and occupied by Germany during the Second World War. The novel's title refers to the branch of the Nazi SS that controls Britain. It was first published in 1978.

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