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HARRIS**, ROBERT: : V2

LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2020.

ISBN 9781786331403.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT.Wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase,virtually as new,so NO owner inscrptn and NO price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt background,photo-montaged front panel of dw/dj with glossy black montaged figures to lower foreground with glossy white+red letters,embossed silver gilt author name,glossy silver gilt outlined red title V2, similar coloured title+author lettering to spine /backstrip,rear panel also b/w photograph illustrated with 2 white lettered sentences; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original,plain cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked lettered title+author to spine/backstrip and publisher's colophon to foot of same and immaculate/clean coloured London streets' plan illustrated sets of endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viipp+1-312pp [paginated] includes author's Note,22 chapters and acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] blank with a double-line border to publisher's colophon at foot of same,with author's other titles to its verso,and a title page with blank verso. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. Victory is close.Vengeance is closer.On the brink of defeat,Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s - ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound,which he believed would win the war.Rudi Graf who,along with his friend Werner von Braun,had once dreamt of sending a rocket to the moon,now finds himself in November 1944 in a bleak seaside town in Occupied Holland,launching V2s against London.No one understands the volatile, deadly machine better than Graf,but his disillusionment with the war leads to him being investigated for sabotage. Kay Caton-Walsh,an officer in the WAAF,has experienced first-hand the horror of a V2 strike.When 160 Londoners,mostly women and children,are killed by a single missile,the government decides to send a team of WAAFs to newly-liberated Belgium in the hope of discovering the location of the launch sites.But not all the Germans have left and Kay finds herself in mortal danger.As the war reaches its desperate end,their twin stories play out, interlocked and separate,until their destinies are finally forced together.Haunted and disillusioned,Graf - who understands the volatile,deadly machine better than anyone - is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - 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's receipt and before th e order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL 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. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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

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