Foreword by michael foot (7 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Good condition. Dust jacket is worn with some edge rips, fading and a couple spots where paper is lifted. Price clipped. A couple pages with some pencil markings. All intact. Good reading or reference copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Published for the Byron Bicentenary.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. While forging a copy of Byron's burned memoirs, a second hand bookdealer's girlfriend becomes overly interested in the poet, causing an obsessive jealousy. For Byron lovers, and a crime story with a monstrous ending. First printing of the reprint edition. Spine cocked with handling creases. Previous owner's information on the half title page, along with the signature of the British political leader: "Best wishes Michael Foot.". Signed by the Foreword Author. …

paperback, 216pp, owner's inscription on half-title, otherwise clean and tight, spine not creased, Very Good condition. ISBN: 090669132X.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine and strips of front and back jacket slightly faded, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 365pp, illustrated. Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi occupied Europe would never have been possible but for the assistance of a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and endlessly inventive team gave hope to the men who had fallen into enemy hands, and aid to resistance fighters in occupied territory. It sent money, maps, clothes, compasses, even hacksaws and in return coded letters from the prisoner of war camps and provided invaluable news of what was happening in the enemy s homeland. Understaffed and under resourced, MI9 nonetheless made a terrific contribution to the Allied war effort. As a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards, James Maydon Langley (1916-83), lost his arm at Dunkirk and was captured but eventually escaped via Lille, Paris, Marseilles, Spain and Gibraltar. He describes the fierce fighting outside Dunkirk, his captivity, escape and extraordinary life in Vichy France, before the Germans controlled it. His fellow escapees and the French who sheltered them make a rich cast of characters. On return to London, Langley is recruited into the Secret Service and told to organise the safe return of allied soldiers, sailors and airmen who had succeeded in either escaping from or evading the Germans. Despite betrayal and infiltration from Germans, collaborators and traitors, over 3000 men were safely brought back to 'fight another day'. Langley and Airey Neave, who joined him after his historic home run from Colditz, had to wrestle with rival secret organisations for resources to carry out their vital work. Langley was portrayed by the actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the 2004 BBC series Dunkirk. Michael Richard Daniell Foot CBE, TD (1919-2012), was a British military historian and former British Army intelligence officer and special operations operative. Jacket by Michael Harvey (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. NO JACKET. Hardback 1944. 19x13cm. 78 pages. FADED SPINE IS INTACT. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref G91.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. xxi, 512 p.