F. W. D. Deakin
F. W. D. Deakin (1913-2005) was a Special Operations Officer in the Second World War, historian (in his own right and also as principal assistant to Churchill in his six volume history of the Second World War) and college head being the first Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford. Faber Finds is reissuing three of his titles: The Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism, The Embattled Mountain (his account of his S. O. E. experiences) and The Case of Richard Sorge which he co-wrote with G. R. Storry.
More about F. W. D. Deakin
Preface to 'The Brutal Friendship' Click Here
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The Embattled Mountain: A New Introduction Click Here
Books by F. W. D. Deakin
The Embattled Mountain
F. W. D. Deakin
On the 28th May, 1943, the author of this book was parachuted, together with Captain Stuart and a small party, to the highlands of Montenegro. These two officers commanded the ...
The Brutal Friendship
F. W. Deakin
This famous and important book was first published in 1962. With disarming modesty, the author describes it as ‘a book by an Englishman, in part based on German documents, on ...
The Case of Richard Sorge
F. W. Deakin and G. R. Storry
Richard Sorge was a spy, a Russian spy and an extraordinarily successful one. Two quotes illustrate this.
The first is by Larry Collins, ‘Richard Sorge’s brilliant espionage work saved ...
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