ISBN: 9780892964321 - a time without shadows (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st American Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1st printing of 1st US edition. Light foxing along page edges (not effecting margins) otherwise a very good hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

1st printing of 1st US edition. Fine hard cover book/ dust jacket lightly rubbed otherwise a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sharp 1st Printing, tight, solid and clean throughout; a bit of wear to spine ends. Owner's signature in ink on ffep. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.…

black & black ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. ~ 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. bottom front corner has tiny rubbed spot. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. minor rubbing on rear, some ink leached from spine cloth inside at top, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 289p. fiction. spy novels. espionage. world war ii. historical fiction. ~ Did Winston Churchill betray the anti Nazi operations network code~named "Scorpio" in order to appease Joseph Stalin? In 1940, Philip Maclean witnessed the German invasion of France and returned to head a Resistance network based in Paris. Another recruit to the network was Henri Masson: a playboy and a liar; but apparently also a patriot. Maclean's brilliant work with the Resistance was mirrored by his personal life: he lived as a Frenchman through two years of occupation and married his great love, Anne~Marie Duchard. However, what seemed the ultimate accolade~a personal interview in which Churchill ordered him to abandon all caution and attack the Nazis directly turned horribly sour when Maclean and his entire network were arrested and thrown into concentration camps. They had been betrayed. Forty years later MI6 officer Harry Chapman discovers that all records of "Scorpio" were destroyed by a sinister British Intelligence officer in 1945. Chapman begins the difficult task of tracing the survivors who are willing to talk: Anne~Marie, still bitter about the treatment of her beloved husband, and two of Maclean's lieutenants who survived the Nazi camps. Soon Chapman realizes that only the pilot, Henri Masson, knew what really happened. And Masson is dead . ~ Ted Allbeury served as Lieutenant Colonel in British Intelligence. One of England's favorite authors and a perennial best~seller; his works have been translated into fifteen languages. Proclaimed "truly a classic writer of espionage fiction" by no less an expert than Len Deighton, Allbeury was the real~life inspiration for Deighton's own unforgettable character, Harry Palmer.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Printing. Item may have minor to moderate cosmetic defects (marks, wears, cuts, bends, crushes) on the cover, spine, pages or dust cover. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges. Pages may contain limited notes or highlighting. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDNear fine in near fine dust jacket. First U.S.A. printing *.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED* Fine in Fine dust jacket. First edition.

Hardcover First U. S. Printing A spy story. Author of other greats such as A Wilderness of Mirrors, The Crossings, Seeds of Treason, Deep Purple and many, many more. (289 Pgs.).

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.