F. W. Deakin

1913 – 2005

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.

• The Brutal Friendship
• The Case of Richard Sorge
• The Embattled Mountain
• A History of World Communism
• British political and military strategy in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe in 1944
• The embattled mountains
• The six hundred days of Mussolini
• British political and military strategy in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe in 1944
• Churchill, the historian
• Reshet Zorgah
• Richard Sorge
• The brutal friendship