Buy this book on-line LETT, BRIAN: : IAN FLEMING and SOE's OPERATION POSTMASTER: THE UNTOLD SECRET STORYUK.BARNSLEY,SOUTH YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD MILITARY/an imprint of PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD.,2013. ISBN 1781590001.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint. [Originally and first published by same publisher in 2012.This is the first reprint,so ist thus.] Wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn,and NO price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,mixture of black,red monochrome photographic background to front panel of dw/dj with montaged selection of thumbnail b/w contemporary photographs and a facsimile military document reproduction,along with capitalised white-lettered title+sub-title and author's name to front panel,spine/backstrip with background continuation of front,with thumbnail photograph detail from front photograph and similarly colour,capitalised title,sub-title,author name and publisher's colophon to foot of same,rear panel with montaged thumbnail b/w photographs and facsimile reproduction of handwritten sketch/plan.Top+fore -edges bright and clean without blemish; contents brigth,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,ix-xpp+1- 255pp [paginated] includes an illustrations list/table,25 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs,maps,facsimile documents and b/w contemporary illustrations' photographs etc. in 1 block,between pp134/35,appendices (1-5) and an Index; plus [unpaginated]half-title+title pages, author's Note with a dedication to its reverse,a contents list/tablemb/w illustrated advertisement to reverse of last page of index for tracing Family History magazines and to rear,6pp blanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age. It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
This is a true story of a force of 'licensed to kill' secret agents,commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian Fleming worked,and upon whom his James Bond stories were based.Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M, the Special Operations Executive was his Secret Service,Professor Dudley Newitt was Q and Captain Gus March-Phillips commanded 'Maid of Honour Force', the team of 'James Bonds' who, in a daring operation, sailed a Q ship to West Africa and stole three enemy ships from a neutral Spanish port on the volcanic island of Fernando Po.
Ian Fleming worked closely with M to oil the wheels that made the operation possible, and prepared the cover story,in which the British Government lied in order to conceal British responsibility for the raid.M's agents prepared the ground on Fernando Po, even enmeshing the Governor in a honey trap.March-Phillips and his team carried out the raid successfully in January 1942,despite much opposition from the local regular Army and Navy commanders,and in the face of overwhelming odds.Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Fleming's lies on the international stage,denying any British complicity in the operation. As a result,a secrecy embargo enveloped Operation POSTMASTER until recently.The author,an experienced criminal QC,proves beyond doubt that this thrilling operation,and the men who carried it out,were the inspiration for Fleming's James Bond.
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