2015, ISBN: 9780297848042

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip dw/dj.Light creasing/ shelf-wear to dw/dj edges,some light indentations to rear wrap,no nicks or tears present.Ligh… Mehr…

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip dw/dj.Light creasing/ shelf-wear to dw/dj edges,some light indentations to rear wrap,no nicks or tears present.Light creasing and bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip as usual/normal.Top+fore -edges clean but lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal, contents bright, tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Book very slightly cocked.Black paper-covered bds (boards) with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and b/w map eps (endpapers).UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiiipp+256pp includes 8pp b/w photographs,2 b/w maps,preface,notes on sources appendix and an index. Millions of words have been written about the fate of Martin Bormann, Hitler's indispensable private secretary,and head of the Nazi party Chancellery,who vanished at the end of WW2.In October 1946 the most-wanted Nazi war criminal was condemned to death in absentia at Nuremberg,but he was never found or brought to justice.Some historians claim he died near the Wiedendamm Bridge,in the ruins of Berlin,on the night of 1-2 May 1945.Others believe he escaped from Germany to South America,where he lived and died.In 1973 a court in Frankfurt pronounced him officially dead.The truth is far more extraordinary. Creighton now reveals that in the final night and day of the war,as the Soviet armies closed in on the capital of the Third Reich,Bormann was lifted from Berlin by a Commando raiding party,led by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond,and himself.The team spirited their captive down the waterways to meet the Allies on the River Elbe,and by mid-May 1945 Bormann was safe in England,where he assumed a new identity. Operation James Bond was ordered by Major Desmond Morton,head of the ultra-secret M Section of naval intelligence.Its ulterior purpose was to recover the immense fortune appropriated by the Nazis and salted away in numbered Swiss bank accounts,to which Bormann alone had access. It was approved not only by the Prime Minister,Winston Churchill,but also by both King George VI and President Roosevelt; yet it was so highly classified that even other government intelligence and security organisations knew nothing of it.After the war,thanks to the British capture of Bormann,95 per cent of Nazi funds were recovered and restored to their former owners. In a most secret letter dated October 1954, Churchill gave the author permission to produce a full account of his wartime operations."When I die," he wrote,"then,if your conscience so allows, tell your story for you have given and suffered so much for England.Do not seek to protect me for I am content to be judged by history.But do,I pray you,seek to protect those who did their duty honestly in the hope of a future world with freedom and justice for all." See also rja312 for another copy.This is the last and greatest revelation from WW2:an astonishing story which will cause history to be recast. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER,1996., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be an export copy,which usually precedes the UK trade edn issues and distribution.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,yellow background with superimposed contemporary b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with red and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip inevitably,but very lightly sunned.Internally to dw/dj light,slight water-stain marks to all corners and to foot of spine/backstrip but without bleeding through to all affected spots and also, but without affecting the boards beneath.Further light marking to top, bottom and vertical edges of dw/dj's inner flaps.Top edges aged/toned,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain cream endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+2-245pp [paginated] includes a preface, acknowledgements,principal events table,10 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp118/9,8 b/w maps interspersed throughout the text and the book,a glossary,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table. WW2 gave rise to an astonishing number of unorthodox units,yet no book until now has assessed their contribution to final victory or shown how they related to one another and to the more conventional fighting forces.In 1939 'Special Forces' did not exist; it was Churchill who ordered them to 'set Europe ablaze'.Operating under a cloak of secrecy during wartime,and quickly disbanded after it,they have never received credit for their achievements. From the early 'butcher and bolt' raids by parachutists and commandos,to SOE activities in France and the Balkans and 'Merrill's Marauders' and Wingate's 'Chindits' in Burma, Special Forces were active in all the great theatres of war.They played a vital role in intelligence-gathering,Anglo-American co-operation, sabotage,the fostering of local resistance movements and guerilla fighting.They denied 'heavy water' to Germany,which prevented that country making the atomic bomb,and they crucially affected the balance of air power in the Western Desert in 1942. Philip Warner has talked to many survivors and tells their individual stories here. The bravery of these men and women was exceptional,and many have become legendary: Vladimir Peniakoff of 'Popski's Private Army,David Stirling of the SAS,Ian Lapraik of the SBS,Peter Young,'Mad Jack' Churchill,and a host of others. 'The Secret Forces of World War II' deals clearly and vividly with a vast quantity of fascinating material - including deception,disinformation and code-breaking techniques.It is a book which will do much for the understanding of the war as a whole. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.Granada Publishing LIMITED,1985., 5, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine of the dust wrapper with the price clipped. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1.6 kg); (xx) 1148pp; Index; Bibliography; Contains: Black & white photographs; Maps; List of abbreviations; References; Portrait to the frontispiece; Appendices [4]; ISBN: 0297848046 || The book is in stock and ships from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, nearly in Bath, from a long-in-the-tooth bookseller - guaranteed by my sound reputation and the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#(182283)|| Condition:, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004, 3<

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[EAN: 9780297848042], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Weidenfeld & Nicolson], WWII, Jacket, Looks unread. Mystify. Mislead. Surprise. These have been the basic tenets of deception in warfare throughout human history. In WWII, however, the Allies employed unprecedented measures and practiced the most successful deception ever seen, meticulously feeding misinformation to Axis intelligence. Thaddeus Holt's ambitious and comprehensive book is the first to tell the full story behind these operations. Exactly how the Allies engaged in strategic deception has remained secret for decades. Now, with the help of newly declassified material, Holt reveals these secrets to the world in a riveting work of historical scholarship. Told chronologically, THE DECEIVERS takes readers from the early British achievements in the Middle East and Europe at the beginning of the war, through to the massive Allied success of D-Day, American victory in the Pacific theatre, and the war's culmination on the brink of an invasion of Japan. Holt brings to life the hitherto little-known men, British and American, who ran Allied deception, tracks the development of deception techniques, and explores the ground breaking work of double agents. Full of fascinating sources and astounding revelations, THE DECEIVERS is an indispensable volume and an unparalleled contribution to WWII literature., Books<

2004, ISBN: 9780297848042

London: Cassell, 2003. Hardback. Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with silver titling to the spine) … Mehr…

London: Cassell, 2003. Hardback. Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1 kg); 288pp; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white photographs; Maps; Glossary; Organisational charts; ISBN: 0-3043-6545-9 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#193730|| Condition:, London: Cassell, 2003, 3, New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 1148 pages : maps ; 23 cm. Subjects; Deception (Military science) History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Deception. World War, 1939-1945 Military intelligence. World War, 1939-1945 Secret service., New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004, 0<