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Sabotage and Subversion: The SOE and OSS at War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) Copy 3.
by Dear, Ian
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- Paperback
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0304352020
- ISBN 13
- 9780304352029
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2002 (1996)* Publisher: Cassell Military Paperbacks.* Binding and cover condition: Soft photographic card covers. No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. No visible faults AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. No tanning. AS NEW* Illustrations: 16pp. block of b/w photos, some line drawings and maps within text.* Pages: 208 pp. text. xvi pp. Appendices, Notes & Index at rear.* Product Description:- The shadowy but nonetheless invaluable under cover work of the American OSS and the British SOE in the Second World War needs no invention to make its retelling a tale of extraordinary courage and daring. In this compilation the author tells of thirteen specific operations in Europe and the Far East describing the work of code-breaking, blockade running, kidnapping, forging, raiding, assassination and sabotage carried out by the SOE and OSS.* This is a FINE AS NEW copy with no visible faults.*
Synopsis
Tim Butcher has worked for the Daily Telegraph since 1990 as foreign affairs leader writer, defense correspondent and Africa Bureau Chief. He is currently living in Jerusalem where he is The Telegraph ’s Middle East correspondent. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Title
- Sabotage and Subversion: The SOE and OSS at War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) Copy 3.
- Author
- Dear, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint 2002
- ISBN 10
- 0304352020
- ISBN 13
- 9780304352029
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Place of Publication
- London UK 224
- This edition first published
- May 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- WW II;
- Size
- 19.6 x 13 x 2 cm
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