Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar [FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Language: English
Published by Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2024
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
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Condition: Used - As new
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As new condition orange boards with black spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Max Hastings; Author Dedication; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Note on Timing; Appendix I: Maj. John Frost's Orders for Operation; Biting February 1942; Appendix II: Order of Battle for C Company 2nd Parachute Battalion 28 February 1942; Appendix III: Maj. Gen. Frederick Browning's Afteraction Report on Operation Biting, March 1942; Appendix IV: Extracts from the Report of the Telecommunications Research Establishment on the German Technology Captured at Bruneval; Acknowledgments; References and a Note on Sources; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with two sections of both black-and-white and color photographic plates plus map and black-and-white diagram. "In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting - a 1942 parachute commando raid on northern France to steal German intelligence. In February 1942, Royal Air Force intelligence was baffled by a newly identified radar network, code-named Wurzburg, on the western territory of Nazi occupied Europe. British intelligence proposed an assault to capture key components. Incredibly brave agents of the French Resistance risked their lives to probe the German defenses on the Normandy coast. Then a company of airborne forces were dropped into France in the dead of night amid heavy snow. Launching their attack, the Allied soldiers dismantled the German's radar and, after three nail-biting hours and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time using landing-craft that carried them back across the stormy seas to Portsmouth. Operation Biting retells this dramatic operation through a gallery of amazing characters, from Winston Churchill, who promoted the raid, to Lord Mountbatten, who commanded Combined Operations, to the brave unsung commandos who fought their way through enemy territory. A cliffhanger of a story that ratchets the suspense to the last page, Operation Biting sheds new light on an exciting and little-known chapter of the Second World War." - from the inner front jacket flap.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar [FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Hastings, Max
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Bucourt, Nicolas (maps); Bozic, Milan (jacket design); Madden, Toby (author photograph)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Vero Beach Books
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