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

from DinadansFriend

Like a number of English speakers with German names, I'm a bit obsessed with the Hitler years, and I find this book an intelligent treatment of how the ghastly catastrophe started and took hold of a civilized state. I'm obviously not a believer in the "Germans are just like that"" school, and fir...

from Carolinejyoung

Just too long and not gripping enough although well written.

from uvula_fr_b4

Winter is a nice-to-have, though less than vital, prequel novel to Len Deighton's three Bernard Samson trilogies (Game, Set, and Match; Hook, Line, and Sinker; Faith, Hope, and Charity), which were set at the tail end of the Cold War and immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Winter ...

from abbottthomas

Back-story to the Bernard Samson spy novels introducing his father, Brian. A series of episodes following the lives of the Winter family through the First World War, the rise of the Nazis and to the end of WW2. Well constructed.