First published in 1977, Fighter was Deighton's first history book, having made his name as a writer of spy fiction.

In 1976, Deighton's novel Spy Story was filmed with Michael Petrovitch as ' Patrick Armstrong '; it is unrelated to Saltzman's Harry Palmer films.

The IPCRESS File was Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962.

When the novel sold well, Eon producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Deighton to write the script for the next 007 film, From Russia With Love ( 1963 ); despite Deighton's efforts, little of his screenplay was filmed.

The title track was inspired by Len Deighton's novel Bomber.

The track was inspired after Lemmy had read Len Deighton's novel Bomber.

In 1995 the BBC's Radio 4 broadcast a " real time " dramatisation of Deighton's documentary novel Bomber, covering the novel's action following RAF Lancaster bomber O-Orange's take-off in 1943, life in the German town that was its allocated target, the bombing raid and the plane's return at night.

Another one appears in Len Deighton's spy novel Berlin Game, published in 1983, which contains the following passage, spoken by Bernard Samson:

The front cover, by Deighton's friend Raymond Hawkey, has been described as " the template for the covers of all subsequent airport novels ".

Deighton's interest in spy stories may have been partially inspired by the arrest of Anna Wolkoff, which he witnessed as an 11-year-old boy.

West is regularly heard on radio as a reader or reciter and has performed in many radio dramas, including Otherkin by Laura Wade, Len Deighton's Bomber, Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Michael Frayn's Here and The Homecoming as Lenny to Harold Pinter's Max.

In Deighton's novel, Samson is an unreliable narrator and his words cannot necessarily be taken at face value.

Deighton's anonymous spy, protagonist of The IPCRESS File ( 1962 ), Horse Under Water ( 1963 ), Funeral in Berlin ( 1964 ), and others, is a working-class man.

The film medium made it difficult to maintain the anonymity of Deighton's hero, who acquired the name Harry Palmer.

Deighton also published a series of cookery books and wrote and drew a weekly strip cartoon-style illustrated cooking guide in London's The Observer newspaper – Len Deighton's Cookstrip.

At least one of the strips is pinned up in Deighton's spy hero's kitchen in the 1965 film of his novel The IPCRESS File.

To exploit the success of Deighton's first four " Unnamed Hero " novels, he wrote Len Deighton's London Dossier ( 1967 ), a guide book to Swinging Sixties London with a " secret agent " theme – contributions from other writers are described as " surveillance reports.

Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in the films based on three of the first four of the published novels featuring this character, and also later in two films not based on Len Deighton's novels.

Deighton's spy is described as working class, living in a back street flat and seedy hotels, and shopping in supermarkets.

It has been theorised that the protagonist in another of Deighton's spy novels, An Expensive Place to Die ( 1967 ), also written in the first-person-anonymous narrative, is also ' Harry Palmer '; however, differences in characterisation and plotting indicate this is someone else other than Palmer.

However, the ambiguity this creates between the two versions, while coincidental, is in keeping with the nature of the character and Deighton's theme of agents losing sight of their original lives.

Despite sometimes being titled Len Deighton's Bullet to Beijing and Len Deighton's Midnight in St Petersburg, Len Deighton did not participate in these films.

It also features Deighton's trademark technical and operational details of the P-51 Mustang fighter which the Group flies.

Saltzman's interests continued to range apart from the series, including production of a loose trilogy of spy films based on Len Deighton's Harry Palmer, a character who operates in a parallel universe to Bond, with all the danger but none of the glamour and gadgets.

Deighton's native wife died.

* Oskar Huth, a top investigator under Heinrich Himmler's direct supervision in Len Deighton's alternative history novel SS-GB.

Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding is Deighton's hero in this book, being one of the few people who perceived the situation accurately.

Hannah and Her Sisters won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, the first film to win both supporting actor awards since Julia in 1977, nearly nine years before, and the last until The Fighter over two decades later.

" Norton received the Boxing Writers Association of America J. Niel Trophy for " Fighter of the Year " in 1977.

In August 1977 the F-111 aircraft and crews were transferred to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and the 474th Wing absorbed the F-4D Phantom II aircraft, crews, and resources of the inactivating provisional 4474th Tactical Fighter Wing at Nellis in April 1977.

From 1977 until 1980 he flew F-4N's with Naval Reserve Fighter Squadron 201 at NAS Dallas and then three years as a member of the Texas Air National Guard with the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group at Ellington Field as a pilot in the F-4C.

A fourth fighter squadron, the 495th Tactical Fighter Squadron was activated with the 48th TFW on 1 April 1977, with a squadron tail color of green.

A fourth fighter squadron, the 495th Tactical Fighter Squadron was activated with the 48th TFW on 1 April 1977 with a squadron tail color of green.

* 495th Tactical Fighter Squadron: 1 April 1977 – 13 December 1991

The 479th TTW was activated at Holloman on 1 January 1977 to provide Lead-In Fighter Training ( LIFT ) training for pilots assigned to fly the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle.

Cold Lake, Alberta: 419 Tactical Fighter ( Training ) Squadron, 1977.

The assets of the 4461st TFTS were re-designated as: 461st Tactical Fighter Training Squadron: 1 July 1977.

Cartwright's operational assignments include: Commanding General, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing ( 2000 – 2002 ), Deputy Commanding General Marine Forces Atlantic ( 1999 – 2000 ), Commander Marine Aircraft Group 31 ( 1994 – 1996 ), Commander Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 ( 1992 ), Fixed Wing Operations Marine Aircraft Group 24 ( 1991 ), Commander Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12 ( 1989 – 1990 ), Administration Officer and Officer-In-Charge Deployed Carrier Operations VMFAT-101 ( 1983 – 1985 ), Aircraft Maintenance Officer VMFA-235 ( 1979 – 1982 ), Line Division Officer VMFA-333 USS Nimitz ( 1975 – 1977 ), Embarkation OIC VMFA-251 & 232 ( 1973 – 1975 ).

True to their word, Transport Canada launched an ambitious program of land acquisition and airfield construction and in November of 1977 the terminal building that we see today opened, and with it came the modern age of aviation.

* George Spater and Ian Parsons, A Marriage of True Minds: An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf ( 1977.

" In early 1977, True released the single " N. Y. You Got Me Dancing ," from her follow-up album, White Witch.

Pana-Wave is an offshoot of a religious group called Chino-Shoho (" True Law of Chino ") based in Shibuya, Tokyo, founded by a woman called Yuko Chino in 1977 and combining elements of Christianity, Buddhism and New Age doctrines.

After a few years of restored health but diminished influence in the group, Johnston finally left in 1977 to pursue a solo career that produced two albums with Warner Bros: Everything You've Heard Is True and Still Feels Good ( reissued on compact disc by Wounded Bird Records ).

April 2008 saw the introduction of the Elvis Costello Jazzmaster, the second signature Jazzmaster model made at the Corona facility-a faithful replication of Elvis Costello's 1960s Jazzmaster used during his 1977 debut album, My Aim is True.

The band's name comes from a song by Elvis Costello, " Sneaky Feelings ", which is on his debut album My Aim Is True ( 1977 ).

* Lal & Norma Waterson with Maria Waterson: A True Hearted Girl ( 1977 )

Jazz session drummer Norman Connors became Buddah's musical director in 1976 and helped to foster the label's move toward R & B and disco ( e. g., the Andrea True Connection's " More, More, More " ( 1976 ) and Chic's " Dance, Dance, Dance ( Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah )" ( 1977 ), the latter hit the charts on its subsequent re-issue by Atlantic Records ).

* Tom Cullen The Mild Murderer: The True Story of the Dr. Crippen Case, ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1977 ), 224p., illus.

* Lal and Norma Waterson A True Hearted Girl 1977

* " True Love " ( 1977 )

* Father Kino, Padre on Horseback ( or Mission to Glory: A True Story ) starring Richard Egan as Kino, was made in 1977.

* Mission to Glory: A True Story ( 1977 )

She was ( with singers Fred Bliffert and Jesse Roe ) one-third of the group Jelly whose only album, A True Story, was released by Asylum in 1977.

' His books, including The New Radicalism in America ( 1965 ), Haven in a Heartless World ( 1977 ), The Culture of Narcissism ( 1979 ), and The True and Only Heaven ( 1991 ), were widely discussed and reviewed.

* The Amityville Horror: A True Story ( 1977 ), novel

* Scoop ( 1974 – 1977 ) .... True stories that have made headlines ....

* The Amityville Horror, a True Story by Jay Anson ( Prentice Hall, 1977 )