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WEST, NIGEL: : THE SECRET WAR FOR THE FALKLANDS. [Participant's SIGNED Association copy.]

LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN & COMPANY,1997.

ISBN 0316882267.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,participant SIGNED association copy,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but ex-SIS participant's black ink handwritten,warm dedication/inscrptn with date: 'To Geoff Cole A good friend - who always helps when he can. Anthony Divall Hamburg 1997.' and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with blue+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Both panels with minor superficial scoring/ indents - but without penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges inevitably age/toned but otherwise bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears 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 and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xii-xxipp+2-266pp [paginated] includes abbreviations list/table, JIC (Joint Intelligence Committee) membership list/table,author's preface,11 chapters and a postscript,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp106/7,appendices (I-III),notes,a bibliography and an index (which includes participant's name/entry - Divall,Tony); plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,epigrams with participant's SIGNED dedication,location and date inscrptn to it's reverse,and acknowledgements. Although much is known about how the war was fought,very little has been disclosed about what really happened behind the scenes. This is the hitherto classified story of how the Argentines planned the invasion, and why London and Langley were taken by surprise.Based on interviews with British, Chilean,Argentinian, New Zealand,French and American intelligence personnel,Nigel West has reconstructed the astonishing events that led up to the conflict, and describes for the first time how the SAS attempted to launch a clandestine raid,code-named MIKADO,on an Exocet base in Tierra del Fuego,and why the Secret Intelligence Service station commander in Paris cornered the local black market in air-to-surface missiles. After research that led the author from General Pinochet in Santiago to the CIA headquarters, from an arms dealer in Hamburg to a murder enquiry conducted by the City of London police, from an undercover listening station in New Zealand to a notorious SIDE office in Buenos Aires,from a sophisticated sting operation that cost the Provisional IRA a cargo of weapons to the collapse of a bank in Lima,this is 'The Secret War for the Falklands'. The truth,now revealed with the help of previously classified documents,is both uncomfortable and spellbinding,likely to thrill he professionals as much as the amateur spy-watchers. The secret war against Exocet would eventually be won,thanks mainly to a MI6 sting operation undertaken by the Hamburg- based agent,Anthony Divall.Posing as an arms dealer and equipped with a £16 million bank facility,he fooled Argentinian arms buyers into believing he could provide 30 Exocets.They were still undelivered when the Union Flag was hoisted over Port Stanley.[The Telegraph. 28th Dec,2012.] Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured 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's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** 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,SIGNED association copy,1st edn.
'To Geoff Cole A good friend - who always helps when he can. Anthony Divall Hamburg 1997.'

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