Weale, Adrian:Army of Evil; A History of the SS
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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 … 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 with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and b/w map eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiiipp+256pp includes 8pp b/w photographs,2 b/w maps,preface,notes on sources,an 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. 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.SIMON & SCHUSTER,1996., 5, 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, NAL Caliber, New York, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. In Nazi Germany, they were called the Schutzstaffel. The world would know them as the dreaded SS -- the most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich... It began as a small squad of political thugs. Yet by the end of 1935, the SS had taken control of all police and internal security duties in Germany -- ranging from local village "gendarmes" all they way up to the secret political police and the Gestapo. And by 1944 the militarized Waffen SS had more than eight hundred thousand men serving in the field, even rivaling Germany's regular armed forces, the Wehrmacht. In Army of Evil: A History of the SS, author Adrian Weale delves into materials not previously available, including recently released intelligence files, the most up-to-date research and rare and never-before-published photographs.– paraphrasing the dust jacket blurb stop Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVIII, 459, [3] pages.. There is no damage to describe for either the dustjacket or the book and its binding.. Marking pen stripe on bottom edge.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; Germany; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0451237919. ISBN/EAN: 9780451237910. Inventory No: 0278645. . 9780451237910, NAL Caliber, 2012, 3<
