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Recounts the World War II activities and triumphs of British music-hall illusionist Jasper Maskelyne and his specially trained team, who fought their part of the war with an amazing array of illusions
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- PublisherBerkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0425062953
- ISBN 13 9780425062951
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7. Seller Inventory # G0425062953I5N00
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Akzeptabel. Berley - 1st. 1983 : David Fisher - tb NN-JJAF-V931 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 113. Seller Inventory # 305902
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Book Description Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. 380 pages, Wraps. Illustrations. Some cover wear and soiling. Some page soiling and discoloration. VERY SCARCE. Jasper Maskelyne and a hand-picked group of men known as The Magic Gang created an incredible array of illusions and special effects on the battlefields of North Africa during World War II. David Fisher is the author of more than twenty New York Times bestsellers. His work has also appeared in most major magazines and many newspapers. He is the author of more than 80 books, among them 24 New York Times bestsellers, and has been a frequent contributor to major magazines and newspapers. He is the only writer ever to have a work of non-fiction, a novel and a reference book offered simultaneously by the Book-of-the Month Club. The War Magician, based on the true story of magician Jasper Maskelyne, who used the techniques of stage magic against Rommel in the desert and whose classic deceptions were key to victory at El Alamein, was initially optioned by Paramount for Tom Cruise but currently is under option to Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, has been published in 12 countries. In 2021, it was announced that Colin Trevorrow would direct War Magician, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the star. Jasper Maskelyne (29 September 1902 - 15 March 1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians. He is most remembered for his accounts of his work for the British military during the WWII, in which he created large-scale ruses, deception, and camouflage in an effort to defeat the Nazis. Derived from a Kirkus review: The camouflage exploits of British music-hall magician Jasper Maskelyne and his six-man experimental unit, the Magic Gang, in 1941-42 North Africa are the subject of this spellbinding narrative. Fisher's account, and his reference to the camouflage work of others, gives each Maskelyne feat the look of a nail in Hitler's coffin. The feats were deucedly clever, and the details of their contrivance are intriguing. There was, first off, the way camouflage trainees Maskelyne and Knox caught the attention of Lord Gott by making the Nazi battleship Graf Spee appear to be sailing down the Thames; the way the Magic Gang whipped up 50,000 gallons of sand-colored camouflage paint, for Wavell's tanks, out of Worcestershire sauce, spoiled flour, cement, and (to give it the proper color) camel dung; the way they made tanks materialize for Wavell "out of thin air"--or, out from under undistinguishable ten-ton trucks; the way they made Alexandria harbor disappear, hid the Suez Canal, conjured up a fleet of subs, produced a 720 ft. battleship, suggesting to Maskelyne the double-bluff ("fake" camouflage) he'd use in deceiving the Germans as to Montgomery's intentions at Alamein. Meanwhile, Knox's fiery death following a forced landing prompts Maskelyne to devise a fire-resistant cream; and Maskelyne and one of the Gang get lost and almost perish in the desert. He is sustained throughout by thoughts of wife Kathy--whence finally cometh peace. Maskelyne's later, broader WW II efforts are alluded to in the epilogue, as is his death in Kenya: there's both more to the story than Fisher tells here, but readers can settle in and enjoy the bona fide deceptions. Presumed 1st Paperback Edition. Presumed first printing. Seller Inventory # 50961
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