The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne - Brossura

Fisher, David

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ISBN 10: 0304367095 ISBN 13: 9780304367092

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 2005

Riassunto

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 Egypt 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. 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 entire dummy army in the middle of the desert.

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L'autore:

David Fisher is the author of more than 40 books on a wide variety of subjects. His work has appeared on bestseller lists around the world.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0304367095
• ISBN 13: 9780304367092
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320