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DEIGHTON**, LEN: : BLOOD,TEARS & FOLLY: In the Darkest Hour of the Second World War

LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1993.

ISBN 022403135X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-10.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red,black and purple lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original, plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate b/w illustrated endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xvi- xviipp+4-653pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,Pts 1-6 comprising 31 chapters,a conclusion,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 4pp apiece, between pp206/7,pp238/9,pp398/9 and pp430/1 respectively,41 b/w illustrations/drawings,22 b/w maps - these by Denis Bishop,8 tables,a facsimile document,all throughout the text and the book.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separate contents+ illustrations/maps/tables lists/ tables,acknowledgements and publisher's advert to reverse of last page of index. In two highly acclaimed bestsellers, 'Fighter' and 'Blitzkreig' - see rja251,Len Deighton exploded the myths of the Battle of Britain and revealed the power that took Hitler's armies in a lightning dash to the Channel coast in 1940. Now,in 'Blood,Tears and Folly',he sets the drama of war on a world stage,reflecting the pyschology of global conflict in moving individual accounts by participants at every level. By 1942 the civilised world had been brought to the brink of ruin.It had taken the Axis powers less than three years to command the high seas in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific,to lay waste most of Europe and enslave millions in Asia,to drive deep into Stalin's Soviet empire and come within an ace of controlling the oilfields of the Middle East.At the height of their power the European dictators and the Japanese military autocracy ruled ruthlessly almost half the world. Standing alone,the British were bankrupt and the Unites States only driven from isolation by the humiliation at Pearl Harbour.Before the tide fully turned in 1943,millions had been put to death,the machinery of the holocaust was in place and nuclear devastation well on the way to becoming a reality. Yet,Deighton warns,fifty years on the lessons of the Second World War continue to reverberate unheeded. Racial hatred once more rears its head in ethnic cleansing,turmoil continues to hang over Middle Eastern oil,neglect still dogs engineering and design in a backward-looking under-educated Britain,recession threatens new trade wars and the widening gap between the world's rich and poor promise economic migration on a frightening scale.The dangers of today are seen all too clearly in this brilliant broad-brush account of a recent time when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction. Want more Len DEIGHTON titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL and NAVAL/MILITARY catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/CANADA customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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