Commando Extraordinary Skorzenys Remarkable Exploits by Foley Charles (8 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Longmans, 1954. 1st edition, VG+/VG. Book has wear to spine ends, bumped corners. DJ has wear to spine ends and corners, some scraping to spine and front fold, light edge wear. 10 b & w photos, 2 maps. Index. Foreword by Major-General Sir Robert Laycock (Chief of Combined Operations, 1943-1947). Full discussion of the use of combined operations in WWII, and how many "more ambitious projects were blocked by an obtuse and hostile British High Command". Author hopes the British will try harder to find ways to use these operations during the Cold War. 232 pp. BP.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 2nd Edition. Jacket is torn and marked.A few inscriptions.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Second Impression 1954. Some light foxing to the prelims. The jacket has some light rubbing and two short tears at the head of the spine.

Cloth. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 2nd Imp. 232pp. Bookplate. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. British First. Second impression; edge wear to boards and dust jacket, particularly at top and bottom of spine and at corners; previous owner's book plate on inside front cover and gift inscription on front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1954, with unclipped jacket. In overall good to very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj faded to spine and rubbed to edges. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; slight tanning to end-papers and page-ends but text and illustrations clean and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

[Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.232. With photographic illustrations. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine on black panel, typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. Some toning/spotting, jacket worn to extremities, some rubbing. Very good. With a foreword by Sir Robert Laycock, Chief of Combined Operations and father-in-law of Lucy Fleming. Fascinating account of the wartime exploits of Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975), Germany's Commander of the Waffen SS Special Forces Unit who lead several covert operations for the Axis powers, including the rescue of Mussolini after his arrest on the order of the Italian King in 1943. He also led Operation Greif in which German soldiers infiltrated Allied lines wearing US Army uniforms. As a result, he was charged in 1947 at the Dachau Military Tribunal with breaching the 1907 Hague Convention. He escaped from an internment camp in 1948, hiding out on a Bavarian farm, then in Salzburg and Paris before eventually settling in Spain. In 1953, he served as a military advisor to the Egyptian president Nasser and was allegedly an advisor to Argentinian president Juan Perón. He later acted as an agent of Mossad, allegedly assisting with the execution of actions such as Operation Diamond. This copy is from the comprehensive espionage collection assembled by Jon Gilbert, with pencil ownership.