'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph

'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' Sunday Telegraph

Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothers also grow apart. When the shadow of the Third Reich falls they become divided by war and their differing ideals - only to meet again years later at the Nuremberg trials. An epic prelude to the Bernard Samson Game, Set and Match trilogy, Winter is a rich, tragic portrait of the fortunes of a family, and a nation, over half a century.

"Deighton's research and plotting are as surefooted as ever, while the pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel." - Sunday Telegraph

"A monumental work ... brilliantly executed." - Daily Telegraph

"Deighton is a fearless observer of the deceptive human world." - New Statesman

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Deighton's most ambitious and subtle book to date, an epic fiction.