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Len Deighton: Blitzkrieg (Paperback, 2007, Pimlico) 5 stars

Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece …

Flying home from his Anschluss triumph, Hitler had shown General Keitel how his mind was working. He put his hand across a small newspaper map of Europe so that his finger and thumb covered Germany and Austria. He nipped Czechoslovakia and then winked at Keitel.

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