Winter: a bernard sampson novel - len deighton

What raises Deightons genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail .

and sure sense of place.

-- Washington Post Peter and Paul Winter, sons of a German businessman, are bonded by childhood trauma.

When they grow apart, only to meet again under the shadow of the Third Reich--and then again at the Nuremburg trials--they find themselves divided by war and differing ideals.

In this expansive, rich, and deeply tragic portrait of a German family from 1899 to 1945, Len Deighton brilliantly weaves a portrait of the fortunes of two sons, and a nation, over half a century.