winterbotham 1897 (5 risultati)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Description: 222 p. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Winterbotham, F. W. (Frederick William) , 1897-. World War, 1939-1945 --Secret service --Great Britain. Spies --Great Britain --Biography 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Description: 222 p. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Winterbotham, F. W. (Frederick William) , 1897-. World War, 1939-1945 --Secret service --Great Britain. Spies --Great Britain --Biography 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 222 pages; Description: 222 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Winterbotham, F. W. (Frederick William) (1897-? ) . World War, 1939-1945 --Secret service --Great Britain. Personal narratives, British. Spies. Biography 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 222 pages; Description: 222 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Winterbotham, F. W. (Frederick William) (1897-? ) . World War, 1939-1945 --Secret service --Great Britain. Personal narratives, British. Spies. Biography 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in dustjacket; 224 x 147; pp. xiii, [1], 199. BLETCHLEY PARK REVEALED The book that revealed the codebreaking work of Bletchley Park to the public. Winterbotham's account was the first that most people had ever heard about the so-called 'Ultra Secret' intelligence that played a decisive role in World War II, called by Winston Churchill 'my most secret source': "with the secret abstraction from Poland of the theoretically unbreakable German cypher machine Enigma, which gave birth eventually to Ultra, [codebreaking] took on a completely new dimension; and surely no other act in history of officially sponsored skullduggery ever had comparably fruitful results" (Preface) Very good, in a like jacket; page edges and top edge very lightly foxed; personal bookplate inside cover; jacket with a closed tear (10mm) to upper edge, else near fine.