Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler
Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber, London., 2017
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United KingdomCarmarthenshire Rare Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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original clothr hardcover, illustrated, 660 pages, fine in very slightly chipped with small loss very good unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf HC2.
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- Title
- Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler
- Author
- Rankin, Nicholas
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, London.
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0571307701
- ISBN 13
- 9780571307708
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Military/Naval/Maritime
The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Francoist Spain, every day Gibraltar had to let thousands of people cross its frontier to work. Among them came spies and saboteurs, eager to blow up its 25 miles of secret tunnels. In 1942, Gibraltar became US General Eisenhower’s HQ for the invasion of North Africa, the campaign that led to Allied victory in the Mediterranean.
Nicholas Rankin’s revelatory new book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in the wider context of the struggle against fascism, from Abyssinia through the Spanish Civil War. It also chronicles the end of empire and the rise to independence of the Gibraltarian people.
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Carmarthenshire Rare Books
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Carmarthenshire Rare Books
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Milford House, 87 Lammas Street,
Carmarthen,
Carmarthenshire,
WALES,
SA34 0LH
E-MAIL: carmsrarebooks@gmail.com
Telephone: 00 44 (0) 1267 223343
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Carmarthenshire Rare Books
Leo Privett, Helen Privett (Partnership)
Milford House, 87 Lammas Street,
Carmarthen,
Carmarthenshire,
WALES,
SA31 3AY
E-MAIL: carmsrarebooks@gmail.com
Telephone: 00 44 (0) 1267 223343