SAS GHOST PATROL: THE ULTRA-SECRET UNIT THAT POSED AS NAZI STORMTROOPERS.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt monochrome photographic front panel with b/w,brown and red lettering,rear panel with group colour photograph with black+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; 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 sand cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink letters to spine/ backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiii-xxiipp+1-330pp [paginated] includes author's note,author's preface,24 chapters and epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp106/7 and pp202/3 respectively,acknowledgements,and a bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 3 single page b/w war theatre regional maps.
See also my book IDs' rja30338 'OPERATION CERTAIN DEATH: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SAS'S GREATEST BATTLE.' and rja645426, rja796918 'The Nazi Hunters: The Ultra-Secret SAS Unit and the Quest for Hitler's War Criminals.' - all UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edns.
September 1941.A lone soldier stumbles out of the Saharan wastes - sun-blasted and on the brink of death.He is immediately taken captive by British frontline troops,but this it transpires is no enemy.It is Captain a Henry Cecil Buck who has dressed himself as a German officer and stolen a German truck in a desperate bid to escape.
March 1942.With the Allies reeling from defeat on all fronts,Britain's wartime leader conceives of a mission as outrageous as it is seemingly impossible,is to found an ultra-secret deception force inspired by his escape,consisting of fluent German speakers equipped with German weapons and uniforms,and driving German vehicles flying the swastika.They are to attempt the most extraordinary ruse of WWII, driving thousands of miles across the desert to bluff their way into a Nazi stronghold the enemy believes utterly invulnerable.Vintage Churchill,this desperate attempt to turn the tide of Axis victories would break just about every known rule of war.
Written with Lewis's signature authenticity and dramatic verve,'SAS Ghost Patrol' is peopled by a cast of the utterly extraordinary: Buck himself,the quintessential British eccentric and adventurer; Jock Haselden,desert spy and would-be assassin nicknamed the 'Lawrence of WWII'; David Russell,'the Flying Scotsman',whose only worry was what to do when the war came to an end; and Merlyn Haruru Craw, whose speciality was blowing up trees on his father's farm.
In its outrageous rule-breaking and ferocity,this is a mission that only the British could have conceived.An epic of daring,courage,tragedy and against-all-odds survival,it may read like the stuff of myth or legend,but every word is true.
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