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Maclean Fitzroy

Eastern Approaches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Jonathan Cape, 1949

419,75 €

Island Books

(Devon, Royaume-Uni)

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Détails

Année
1949
Auteur
Maclean Fitzroy
Éditeurs
Jonathan Cape
Thème
military, ww2, wwii, western desert, russia, balkans, tito, maclean, fitzroy maclean
Langues
Anglais

Description

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 14 plates on 11 and 3 folding maps (2 coloured), some barely discernible offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, red top, fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. A classic of its time, recalling Maclean's Buchan-like experiences before and during WWII. Includes coverage of the Moscow State Trials, operating with LRDG in the Western Desert, kidnapping a general and being dropped in occupied Europe as Churchill's personal envoy to Tito. THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.481.
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