Winter: the tragic story of a Berlin family 1899-1945. Len Deighton. 2012.

Winter tells the tale of a Berlin family divided. Two brothers, Peter and Paul Winter, came of age during the Great War; then, as Hitler’s power spreads through Germany threatening a new era of violence, the brothers are driven apart by differing morals and ambitions.

Meticulously researched, this allegory of a divided nation paints a brilliant portrait of the German zeitgeist during those turbulent years, and provides a powerful depiction of the rise of the Third Reich.