Buy this book on-line ASHER**, MICHAEL: : GET ROMMEL: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest GeneralLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2004. ISBN 029784685X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,colour photographic illustrated upper wrap with gold+white 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 and pristine - an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered, black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,11-303pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,2 b/w maps,36 chapters+ epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp160/1,sources,notes and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and a contents list/table.
By the summer of 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general.Sent to North Africa to halt the British advance into Libya,he not only stopped the British offensive but drove them back to their Egyptian base.He seemed to be unbeatable on the battlefield,so the British planned to kill him.On the eve of the next British offensive,Operation Crusader,a specially trained commando team landed by submarine behind enemy lines.Marching deep into the desert,they attacked Rommel"s headquarters.At the same time,in its first ever combat mission,the newly created SAS parachuted sabotage teams close to the German airfields to knock out the enemy air forces on the ground.
Michael Asher reveals how these daring raids were practically impossible from the start - but the volunteer commandos and SAS men had no idea this was effectively a suicide mission.Poor planning and incompetence in high places was matched by fantastic bravery and brilliant improvisation that enabled a handful of the survivors to escape back to British lines and tell their story.From Bob 'Lucky' Laycock,the model for Evelyn Waugh's Lt.Col. Tommy Blackhouse,to the tragic Geoffrey Keyes,awarded a posthumous VC for leading the operation, Michael Asher investigates the true story of 'Operation Flipper';the plot to kill Rommel.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with gold+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing and a tiny snick to rear lower edge,toward spine/backstrip's
gutter's edge.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near 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 black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-303pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,2 b/w war theatre maps,36 chapters and an epilogue, 8pp contemporary,historical and biographical b/w photographs in 1 block, between,pp144/45,sources,notes,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,an epigram,and contents list/table.
By the summer of 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general.Sent to North Africa to halt the British advance into Libya,he not only stopped the British offensive but drove them back to their Egyptian base.He seemed to be unbeatable on the battlefield,so the British planned to kill him.On the eve of the next British offensive,
'Operation Crusader',a specially trained commando team landed by submarine behind enemy lines.
Marching deep into the desert,they attacked Rommel's headquarters.At the same time,in its first ever combat mission,the newly created SAS parachuted sabotage teams close to the German airfields to knock out the enemy air forces on the ground.
Michael Asher reveals how these daring raids were practically impossible from the start - but the volunteer commandos and SAS men had no idea this was effectively a suicide mission.Poor planning and incompetence in high places was matched by fantastic bravery and brilliant improvisation that enabled a handful of the survivors to escape back to British lines and tell their story.From Bob 'Lucky' Laycock,the model for Evelyn Waugh's Lt. Col. Tommy Blackhouse,to the tragic Geoffrey Keyes,awarded a postumous VC for leading the operation,Michael
Asher investigates the true story of
'Operation Flipper': the plot to kill Rommel.
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