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1st edition very good green cloth with gilt titles hardcover. No dj. 190p. with ill. and b&w plates. Intrepid explorers in deepest, darkest Brazil.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. "The dramatic, firsthand story of this remarkable army is re-created here by a man who was an active member from 1934 to 1948, who draws his facts from personal experience as well as from secret documents kept hidden during the British Mandate. Mardor reveals how he posed as a dock worker to spirit a mine aboard the Patria." - dust jacket. "The Patria disaster was the sinking on 25 November 1940 of the 11,885-ton SS Patria in the port of Haifa. She was about to depart with about 1,800 Jewish refugees whom the British authorities were deporting. The bomb Mardor planted, purportedly to simply disable the ship, sunk it in sixteen minutes, killing 267 and injuring 172." - Wikipedia. In later years Mardor played an important role in Israel's nuclear weapons program. Translated from the 1957 Hebrew first edition. 295 pages. Glossary. Index. Book clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this important history. ; 8vo.