Operational Necessity (28 results)

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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Text is clear of markings. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 444 pages. Cover slightly worn, Text lightly tanned It is January 5, 1945. A French freighter is torpedoed in the South Atlantic. By the laws of war, the shipwrecked survivors should be beyond further attack. But when the U-boat commander orders that they be shot, he justifies it as an o perational necessity. He believes that the safety of his own boat and crew depe nds on destroying all traces of the sinking. Only later, at an Allied tribunal a fter V-E Day, are the grim facts fully brought to light in a dramatic confrontat ion between the sole survivor and the captured German officers. Crisscrossing br illiantly from the agonies of the wounded survivors to the action aboard the hun ted submarine, Gwyn Griffin divides the reader's sympathies as he probes incisiv ely into the paradoxes of human nature and of war and its aftermath. Before his early death, Griffin was hailed as a storyteller to surpass his contemporaries A listair MacLean and Hammond Innes. The proof is here, in a novel that ends with one of the most harrowing courtroom scenes in modern fiction.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Operational Studies Group (OSG) War Games (Operational Studies Group, OSG) Special Study #6 - The Companion to the Last Success, 1809, A Fatal Necessity (EX) Manufacturer: Operational Studies Group (OSG) Product Line: War Games (Operational Studies Group, OSG) Type: Softcover Code: OSGSS6 Copyright Date: 2012 Author: Kevin Zucker Page Count: 122 Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is EX. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: Special Study #6 - The Companion to the Last Success, 1809, A Fatal Necessity Softcover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 411pp. Textured grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in unclipped dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Top edge blue. First 30pp stubbed at top and leading edge. Dustwrapper lightly sunned rubbed and worn with some chips and small losses to extremities. Textblock otherwise clean and tight. GROVE David (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Second Edition By Publisher. 444 pages *** CANADA BUYERS; (This is a THICK BOOK, thus can only be shipped by Expedited Mail in CANADA; Standard Pre-Set Postage Rates ONLY APPLY in Manitoba & Saskatchewan; Other Canadian Provinces will Need to pay EXTRA Shipping Charges); *** "It is a war story, a sea story, a courtroom story, a suspense story, buy it iis also a soty of ideas . Never for a moment does the interest wane; Grittin transfixes his reader and holds him until the last page." - Virginia Pasley, Newsday. >>> Cover creasing; ; edge wear to covers; pen to covers; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first UK edition, 1968. This book is in very good+ condition - ghost of pencil price on ffep. The dust jacket is in good condition - price-clipped; edge wear with rubbing and chipping; extra rubbing and chipping along the top edge. Photos available on request.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Inside is As New(the book is unread), the dust jacket is worn especially on the back, the front is fine with light edge wear on the top edge(see photos), pages clean and crisp, covers clean, no highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Thank you for your interest. Free tracking number for each order. We ship the same day or the next business day. b44. …

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Hardcover format. Minor fading on the boards. Minor stain on the edges. Text is clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Some mild yellowing of text, lower hinge and corners bumped, light general wear. Clean, unmarked text. Novel set during World War II. BOMC hardcover missing dust jacket. Book.

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