Secrets and stories of the war. Volume 2
1963, First Edition. London : Reader's Digest Association. Very good copy in the original cloth-backed, gilt-blocked paper-covered boards. Spine somewhat rubbed, particularly at the ends. Text block remains strong: tight and clean, with leaves gently age-toned. A well-preserved example overall. Item #467940
Physical description; 370-720, [6] pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 20 cm. Notes; Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Contents include: The One That Got Away (Kendal Burt and James Leasor); Cockleshell Heroes (George Kent); The Longest Day (Indro Montanelli); The Corpse that Hoaxed the Axis (Ewen Montagu); What Really Happened to Rommel (Countess Waldeck); Adolf Hitler's Last Days (Frederic Sondern); Japan's Last Secret Weapon—Balloons (Brigadier-General W.H. Wilbur); 'I Fell 18,000 Feet Without a Parachute' (Nicholas Stephen Alkemade); The RAF Versus the V-2 (Allan Michie); The Greatest Sea-Air Battle in History (Hanson Baldwin); No High Ground (Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey); and others. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945. Anecdotes. Personal narratives. Military history. 20th century. Illustrated.
Price: €12.95