Shogun, set in Japan around 400 years ago, is the first of James Clavell’s Asian Saga. In the beginning perhaps it feels rather slow, but up to the vivid minutes in the dogfighting, it is just awesome. The storyline is pretty much linear albeit with many (but relevant) flashback. There is no single main characters, with lots of Britons and Germans both affected the main story.Īgain everything is rich and super detailed, from the price of one RAF’s Lancaster to the operation of the German radar array. In this damned event in the last day (which was, 31st ) of June 1943, both sides took big casualties. A large RAF raid carefully planned to bomb Krefeld in the Ruhr area, mistakenly placed almost every single bomb in a (fictionalised) small country city named Altgarten. It’s hard to put, it’s unforgettable and simply worth to read.īomber is, to put it mildly, Len Deighton’s narration of Murphy’s Law. The details are amazing, as with typical Len Deighton’s novels. What I like most is that the characters are not simply “black” or “white”, almost everybody is portrayed as “grey”.

The story also involved many of their relatives, with quite some twists, intrigues and entanglements.Īll in all, it’s just dark but fascinating, involves all things about love, hate, horror, pain and suffer. With the background of Germany, in particular Berlin, in the first 50 years of the last century, the two central characters Paul and Peter Winter took a different route for their lives and yet they must once a while cross their paths, the last being the most tragic one. Winter is about seemingly complex conflicts around a family drama. Ariya.io About Talks Articles Winter, Bomber, Shogun, Tai-Pan

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