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The War Magician: The Man who Conjured Victory in the Desert

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#374037-XA43
Titel	The War Magician: The Man who Conjured Victory in the Desert
Auteur	Fisher, David
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0297846353
ISBN13	9780297846352
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original orange boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Eygpt where the desert war had just begun. He used his skills to save the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers and to 'hide' the Suez Canal from them. He invented all sorts of camouflage methods to make trucks look like tanks and vice versa. Working for military intelligence, he put on a stage show inside the Royal Palace in Cairo in order to locate an enemy spy's radio transmitter. On Malta he developed 'the world's first portable holes': fake bomb craters used to fool the Germans into thinking they had hit their targets. His war culminated in the brilliant deception plan that won the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an... (Lees verder) entire dummy army in the middle of the desert.
Pagina's	342
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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