TITLE/AUTHOR: Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945 by Len Deighton 536 pages ISBN: 0-586-06895-3 CONDITION: Good. Does have some scuffing around the edges, some creasing to the spine and back cover. Plus some aging/age spots to the edges and some of the pages.

Epic prelude to the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, that follows the fortunes of a German dynasty during two world wars.

Winter takes us into a large and complex family drama, into the lives of two German brothers - both born close upon the turn of the century, both so caught up in the currents of history that their story is one with the story of their country, from the Kaiser's heyday through Hitler's rise and fall. A novel that rings powerfully true, a rich and remarkable portrait of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.

In his portrait of a Berlin family during the turbulent years of the first half of the century, Len Deighton has created a compelling study of the rise of Nazi Germany.

With its meticulous research, rich detail and brilliantly drawn cast of characters, Winter is a superbly realized achievement.

THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE TRILOGY

Readers of Len Deighton's Game, Set and Match trilogy - BERLIN GAME, MEXICO SET, LONDON MATCH - (set in the 1980s) will be pleased to discover in WINTER some people they know already such as Lisl Henning, the hotel proprietor and her bridge partner Lothar Koch. Here too are friends and relatives: Werner Volkmann's father and Bernard Samson's father both play important parts in the story, so does Bret Rensselaer's step-father. Readers will recognise many other old friends from the previous stories and see why WINTER is indeed the fourth book of the trilogy.