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Len Deighton
Len Deighton (born 1929)

journalist, historian, playwright, photographer, film producer, illustrator

  • Saint Martin's School of Art, Royal College of Art

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SS-GB
The Ipcress File
Spy hook
Twinkle twinkle little spy
Spy line
Game, set & match
Funeral in Berlin
XPD
Spy sinker
Bomber
Spy story
Only when I laugh
Yesterday's spy
An expensive place to die
Horse under water
Airshipwreck
An Expensive Place To Die
MAMista
Three complete novels
Spy story
Spy Sty
Funeral in Berlin (1960s A)
Cas-Sym #1
SS-GB
The complete game, set and match trilogy
Funeral in Berlin
Only When I Laugh Ltd/E
MAMista
The billion-dollar brain
Expensive Place to Die
Bomber
Ipcress File
Mexico set
Charity
Blood, tears, and folly
Blitzkrieg
Billion-dollar brain
Hope
Winter
Berlin game
Fighter
Close-up
City of gold
Faith
Goodbye Mickey Mouse
Only when I larf
London match
Faith
Game
Violent ward
Hook, line and sinker
Spy Hook
ABC of French food
Charity
Eleven declarations of war
Esperanza
Battle of Britain
Match
Charity
Declarations of war
Hope
Goodbye Mickey Mouse
Hope
Spy Line (Hook, Line & Sinker Series)
Spy Hook
VIOLENT WARD INTL
Only When I Larf
Winter
Basic French cooking
Hope
Berlin Game
Basic French Cookery Course
Spy Sinker
In Pursuit of Life
Faith
London Match (Opn Mkt)
City of Gold / Mamista
Hope
Spy Line (MM to TR Promotion)
Battle of Britain
Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy
Funeral in Berlin
Mexico Set-Om
Spy Story
City of gold
Winter (MM to TR Promotion)
Où est le garlic, or, Len Deighton's French cook book
Hope
Blood, tears, and folly
SS-GB
Horse under water
Charity
Faith
Faith
Action cook book: Len Deighton's guide to eating
Ou Est Le Garlic
London Match (MM to TR Promotion)
Charity
Blitzkrieg, from the rise of Hitler to the fall of Dunkirk
Cookstrip cook book
Mexico Set
Bomber
LONDON MATCH
Pests
Len Deighton
Spy Sinker
Mexico Set
Mamista
Bombshell
Close-up. --
Blitzkrieg
Len Deighton's French Cooking for Men
Spy Line
Winter : a Berlin family, 1899-1945
Yesterday's Spy
Yesterday's spy
Eiskalt
An expensive place to die
Billion-Dollar Brain
XPD
Spy Hook
Anton Edelmann Creative Cuisine
Ou est le garlic, or, Len Deighton's French cook book
Anzuelo Para Espias
Berlin Game
London dossier
Winter
Spy Hook
El Juego De Berlin
Berlin Game
Expensive Place to Die
London Match
Le réseau Brahms
Winter
London Match
City of Gold
El Partido De Londres: Tercera Parte De LA Gran Triolgia Del Autor
Hope
London Match
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse
Xpd
Declarations of war
Horse Under Water
The Ipcress file
Ipcress File
Spy Sinker
Close-up
Mexico
Funeral in Berlin
Mexico Set (MM to TR Promotion)
SS-GB
London Match
Violent Ward
Catch Falling Spy
Fe
El Pabellon De Los Locos
Only When I Larf
Un milliard de dollars
MAMista
Violent ward
How to Be a Pregnant Father
Billion-Dollar Brain
Blitzkrieg
SS-GB Isgal
Spy Hook
Ipcress File
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
Sedal Para Espias
Violent Ward
City of Gold
Blitzkrieg
Close-Up
No Royalty A/C Action Cook Book
XPD
Bomber; events relating to the last flight of an R.A.F. [bomber] over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943
Expensive Place to Die
Gelinkt
Len Deighton's Game, Set, Match
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse
Spy Quartet
IPCRESS File
Ss-Gb
Spy Sinker (Hook, Line and Sinker Trilogy, Vol 3)
Spy Story
ABC of French Food and Basic French Cooking
Only When I Larf
Mexico Set
Expensive Place to Die
Close-Up
Berlin Game
Mexico Set
Yesterday's Spy
Charity
Deighton Promo 12mpk
Yesterday's spy
Only When I Larf
Blood, Tears and Folly
Gioco a Berlino
Only When I Larf X10 S/W
Fighter
Violent Ward-12 Copy Dump
Fugue pour un espion
Hope
Len Deighton's French Cooking for Men
Close-Up
Gedrillt
Charity
Action Cook Book
XPD by Len Deighton (1981-03-09)
Kaerlighed (Charity)
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse
City of Gold Special Sale
Horse under Water
Spy Sinker
Yesterday's Spy
Bomber Play
Mes Funérailles à Berlin
La famiglia Winter
Adios, Mickey Mouse
Faith
City of Gold (Special Sales)
Libro del Futuro Padre
Twinkle Twinkle-Sil Jub
Events relating to the last flight of an RAF bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943
Winter
Yesterday's Spy
Blitz-kreig
Spy Line
SS-GB
Prélude pour un espion
Temps des aigles la verite sur la bataille
Declarations War-Sil Jub
Geködert
Billion-Dollar Brain
Blood, Tears and Folly
Berlin Game
Bomber
Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy
Basic French Cookery Course
Horse under Water
Winter
Blood, Tears and Folly
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
FIGHTER - the true story of the Battle of Britain
Declarations of War
Spy Line
City of Gold
Spy Story
Billion-Dollar Brain
Bomber
Funeral in Berlin
Spy Sinker
City of Gold
Spy Hook
Declarations of War
Fantaisie pour un espion
Faith
Len Deighton's London dossier
Fighter
London Match
LA Ciudad De Oro
Bomber
Faith
El juego de Berlín
Hope
Plomo Para Espias
MAMista
Funeral in Berlin
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse
Spy Line
Horse under Water
Xpd
ABC of French food
Close-Up
ha-Meragel mi-London
מבצע ברלין
El Juego De Berlin (Los Jet De Plaza & Janes)
Sedal Para Espias
Fantaisie pour un espion
Geködert
Twinkle, twinkle little spy
Dump-Berlin Game-36cy
Funeral in Berlin
S.S.-Britanyah
Un ciel pour bombardiers
Anzuelo Para Espias (Los Jet De Plaza & Janes)
Kairo
L'ultima partita
Tod auf teuerem Pflaster
Mexico poker
ha-Meragel ha-ḳaṭan
Maʻarekhet Meksiḳo
Spy Sinker (18 Cpy)
Tiḳ Ipḳres
Adieu, Mickey Mouse
Winter
Le Réseau Brahms
London dossier
Untitled 3
Fantaisie pour un espion
Meragel ha-etmol
Sedal para espías
Mexico poker
The Ipcress file
City of gold
Vincent Price
Vincent Price (1911-1993)

art collector, art historian, voice actor, autobiographer, character actor, stage actor, film actor, television actor

  • Courtauld Institute of Art, Yale University

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18 Best Stories
A Treasury of Great Recipes
I Like What I Know
Vincent Price, His Movies, His Plays, His Life
Public opinion
Monsters
Treasury of American Art
Tales of witches, ghosts and goblins
Monsters
The Vincent Price treasury of American art
La Opinion Publica / Public Opinion
Tales of Terror Audio
Cooking Price-wise
The book of Joe
The Saint
The Ghouls
A Treasury of Great Recipes
Vincent Price, actor and art collector
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins
The Price of Fear
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins (1393/Cassette)
Three hundred years of great American poetry, from Anne Bradstreet through Stephen Crane
Vincent Price collects drawings
How to Host a Murder
Stewart Home
Stewart Home (born 1962)

art historian, journalist, musician

  • Kingston University

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Slow death
Come Before Christ and Murder Love (High Risk)
What Is Situationism?
The assault on culture
Mind Invaders
Tainted Love
Neoist manifestos
69 things to do with a dead princess
Neoism, Plagiarism & Praxis
Confusion Incorporated
Memphis Underground
Red London
Pure Mania (King Mob Spoken Word CDs)
Blow job
Down & out in Shoreditch and Hoxton
Defiant Pose
The Assault on Culture
Cranked Up Really High
The Festival of Plagiarism
Suspect Device
Disputations On Art, Anarchy And Assholism
The house of nine squares
Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie
The Art Strike Papers and Neoist Manifestos
Plagiarism
Pure Mania
Cunt
Conspiracies, cover-ups & diversions
Suspect device
No Pity
Out-takes
What is situationism?
Memphis underground
69 mest, gde nado pobyvatʹ s mertvoĭ print͡sessoĭ
Larry Collins
Larry Collins (1929-2005)

war correspondent, historian, journalist

  • Loomis Chaffee School, Yale University

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Maze
O Jerusalem!
Freedom at Midnight
Is Paris Burning
Fortitude
Is New York Burning?
5th Horseman
Or I'll dress you in mourning
Black eagles
Yasimi Tutacaksin
... O llevarás luto por mí
Ou tu porteras mon deuil
El quinto jinete
Kudüs... Ey Kudüs
Esta noche, la libertad
Der fünfte Reiter
Les aigles noirs
Hermann Langbein
Hermann Langbein (1912-1995)

historian, stage actor, actor, resistance fighter, politician

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…und nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank
Menschen in Auschwitz
Pasaremos (Wir werden durchkommen)
Auschwitz
Die Stärkeren
Nationalsozialistiche Massentötungen durch Giftgas
Der Auschwitz- Prozeß. Eine Dokumentation
Hermann Langbein zum 80. Geburtstag: Festschrift (German Edition)
... wir haben es getan
Auschwitz und die junge Generation
Im Namen des deutschen Volkes
Hermann Langbein
Antal Szerb
Antal Szerb (1901-1945)

translator, poet, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar

  • Piarist Gymnasium of Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University

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PENDRAGON LEGEND; TRANS. BY LEN RIX
The Pendragon legend
Oliver VII
Third Tower Journeys In Italy
Journey by moonlight
Journey by Moonlight (Pushkin Paper)
A Pendragon-legenda
The Traveler
Queen's Necklace
The Pendragon Legend
Az angol irodalom kis tükre
Gondolatok a könyvtárban
Oliver
Journey by moonlight
Szerelem a palackban
Journey by Moonlight
La Leyenda de Los Pendragon
Le voyageur et le clair de lune
Száz vers
Budapesti kalauz marslakók számára
7. Olivér
Hétköznapok és csodák
Utas és holdvilág
A varázsló eltöri pálcáját
Reflections in the Library
Love in a Bottle and Other Stories
Oliver Vii (Pushkin Collection)
Gedanken in Der Bibliothek
Pendragon Soylencesi
Die Pendragon-Legende
Yolcu ve Ayisigi
Reise im Mondlicht
Marie Antoinette
Naplójegyzetek (1914-1943)
A királyné nyaklánca
Love in a bottle
Yolcu ve Ayışığı
The queen's necklace
Magyar irodalomtörténet
A világirodalom története
Dunya Yazin Tarihi
Gondolatok a könyvtárban
Szerb Antal válogatott levelei
The queen's necklace
Resa i månljus
A Martian's guide to Budapest
A királyné nyaklánca
El Viajero bajo el resplandor de la luna
Utas és holdvilág
A világirodalom története
A fehér mágus
Nagy emberek gyermekcipőben
VII [i.e. Hetedik] Olivér
A varàzsló eltöri pálcáját
מסע לאור ירח
Die Suche nach dem Wunder
The queen's necklace
Magyar irodalomtörténet
William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon (born 1939)

historian

  • University of Missouri

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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
River-horse
The red couch
Blue Highways
Blue highways
River-horse
Blue highways
Blue Highways
Columbus in the Americas
PrairyErth
River Horse
Blue highways
Blue Highways
Roads to Quoz
Roads to Quoz : an American mosey
Blue Highways
Blue Highways
Prairyerth
Blue highways
Prairyerth
Prairyerth
Blue Highways
PrairyErth
Red Couch
Linda Grant DePauw
Linda Grant DePauw (born 1940)

historian of Modern Age

  • Swarthmore College, Johns Hopkins University

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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Related Readings
Battle Cries and Lullabies
Remember the ladies
Seafaring women
In Search of Molly Pitcher
Founding mothers
Fortunes of war
The eleventh pillar
Sea changes
Four traditions
Baptism of fire
Founding mothers : women in America in the Revolutionary era
Documentary history of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
Eleventh Pillar New York State & the Federal Constitution
Seeing a Unicorn