Isbn: 9780006132639 - dawn attack (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

1st thus. Zustand: vg++. WW2, 1st edition Fontana 1974 paperback, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 256 pages. Foxing, Cover worn, Text tanned November 29, 1941: 0530 hrs. At sea, three thousand yards off the blacked-out coast of Occupied Norway two ditched Luftwaffe air crew toss in a yellow dinghy . One is dead, his companion close to death. As their rubber coffin roller-coast ers crazily to the crest of yet another curling sea a river of lightning illumin ates the scene - and inexplicably, almost impossibly, reveals a line of ships ? ?? long, low, silent ships. Ships stealing predatorily eastwards along the jagge d silhouette of the black horizon. Then the light fades, the ghost ships vanish , the incredulous airman ceases to breathe ? But he was still the first Germa n to have seen the coming to Norway of Number 22 Commando, Special Service Briga de.This is the story of an Allied raid on the little Norwegian fishing p ort of Alvik: of the Commando and of the naval and air detachments which support ed it, and of the German garrison which resisted them. Alvik is imaginary, there was no Number 22 Commando - but there were similar events, and the very essence of those battles lies distilled in the following pages.There are no good guys or bad guys, no 'ours' and 'theirs'; only human beings - some cowardly, so me brutal, some pitifully vulnerable; some who joke in the face of death, others who cower terrified before it. With staggering vividness Brian Callison sketche s in his protagonists so that they become creatures of flesh and blood who carry the reader with them in this hectic clash of arms. All the nobility of war is h ere; all the squalor; all the humour and all the horror. To read THE DAWN ATTACK is to know what it was really like. It is to have fought in Combined Operations .Heart-stopping suspense. New York Times.…

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO60066749: 1974. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 256 pages. Illustré d'un plan en noir et blanc sur double page. Annotations au dos du 1er plat. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.