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Published by Macmillan, 1983
ISBN 10: 0025384708ISBN 13: 9780025384705
Seller: BookHolders, Towson, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: reprint ] Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. Pub Date: 1/1/1982 Binding: hardcover Pages: 422 reprint edition.
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Published by Pan Books Ltd, 1983
ISBN 10: 0330269208ISBN 13: 9780330269209
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Published by Souvenir Press, 1982
ISBN 10: 0285625195ISBN 13: 9780285625198
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: 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.
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., NY, 1982
Seller: Battleground Books, Yorktown, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., NY. The story of the low level RAF attack on the German SS's Amiens prison in France on 18 February 1944. The raid organized by the British MI-6 and the American OSS was designed to knock down the prison wall and allow the Allied prisoners to escape. This is a review copy sent out by the publisher looking for book reviews just prior to publication. Very good copy of the first edition in a good+ dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor edge wear. 448 pages.
Published by Souvenir Press, . First Edition., 1982
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), silver letters, map illustrated endpapers, 448 pp. Fine, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear and original price tag. From dust jacket: What was inside Amiens prison, in northern France, so important that the Allies were forced to bomb it on February 18, 1944? Only a handful of people knew the extent of the crisis. At risk was the postponement for at least a year of the June 1944 Allied invasion and liberation of Europe; millions more lives, and even the outcome of the war itself. Unknowingly, the Gestapo had within its grasp the chance to destroy the freedom hopes of the enslaved continent. They had killed or captured most of the key members of underground networks on whom General Eisenhower depended for information and invasion support. With the survivors demoralised and virtually leaderless, drastic action was imperative. But the decisive factor that launched Operation "Jericho" -- the spectacular tree-top height air attack on the prison -- was something even more startling, and unrecorded until now. It resulted in the most breathtaking gaolbreak and mass manhunt ever, with momre than seven hundred men and women -- convicted spies, burglars, saboteurs, pickpockets, Resistance fighters, confidence tricksters, clandestine radio operators, urderes and forgers, shot-down Allied aircrew and prositutes, pimps and Black Marketeers -- all comrades on the run in one extraordinary escape-or-die dash for liberty. Luftwaffe, tanks, infantry, counter-intelligence agents, Gestapo and police, hunted them. And so did the undergoround and Allied forces. For the first time, one of the most dramatic stories of the Second World War is revealed in detail. From secret documents and interviews with hundreds of surviving particpants -- from British, American and French Secret Service chiefs to petty crimninals, Jack Fishman pieced together a narrative so incredible and exciting that his true story reads like a power-packed novel. The kaleidoscope of ordinary and extraordinary people thrown together as allies and enemies bfore, on and after February 18, 1944, captures in a single event both the struggle, endurance, deceit, treachery and courage that is war, and the amazing heights to which the most humble people can rise when faced with a crisis. Military History, World War II, WWII. yslic.
Published by Macmillan, NY, 1983
ISBN 10: 0025384708ISBN 13: 9780025384705
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
First edition. 422p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in near-fine condition. Book is clean and tight and dustjacket has only mildly creases edges. Account of the Allies' operation to free a key spy from a Nazi prison in order to ensure the success of the D-Day invasion. Includes black and white photographs.
Published by Souvenir Press Ltd, 1982
ISBN 10: 0285625195ISBN 13: 9780285625198
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 448 pages (complete). An agreeably neat copy of this story of the bombing of Amiens prison in 1944. The dustjacket has a clear plastic protective cover. The dj and the cover are tidy. The contents are smart, clean, clear, thrilling and assured. fn. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Pan, GB, 1983
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: VG+. 1st Thus. Booksellers stamp on halftitle.
Published by Pan Books 1983, 1983
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Pan Books. 398 Páginas., 1973
Seller: LIBRERIA CLIO, HUMANES DE MOHERNANDO, GUAD, Spain
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien.
Published by Souvenir Press 1982, 1982
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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First Edition
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG), all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
Published by Zebra Books [Kensington Publishing Corp.], New York, 1984
ISBN 10: 0821714449ISBN 13: 9780821714447
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. First Zebra Printing [stated]. Includes Preface, as well as chapters on The Man Who Sold People; The American Connection, The Pint-Sized Giant; A Job for a Joshua; The Melting Pot, Bet-Laid Plans; Courvoisier the Pimp; "New Boy"; Opportunity Knocks at Noon; The Madame and the Maid; Visibility Zero; Nobody Got Soup; A Burglar's Lot; Of Brothels and Men; Piggyback Nightmare; It's Safer in Jail; Requiem Mass; and The Cycling Assassin. Also contains Postscript, Author's Notes and Acknowledgments; Bibliography, and Dedication. This work was a History Book Club Alternate Selection. Only one man--Charles Piquard--could lead the historic air attack that would free more than seven hundred men and women, and save the heroes of D-Day from Nazi extinction. Chronicles the drama of Operation Jericho, the February, 1944, air raid that freed more than seven hundred prisoners held in Amiens, France, in the greatest mass prison escape in history. Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (16 May 1915 - 18 February 1944) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was the first officer of the RAF to be awarded the DSO three times during the Second World War. He flew over a hundred sorties and distinguished himself in a variety of operations requiring coolness under fire. He led the squadron of Whitley bombers that carried paratroopers to their drop for the Bruneval raid. Throughout 1943 he flew the Lysander on nighttime missions into occupied France for the SOE. Pickard led a group of Mosquitos on the Amiens raid, in which he was killed in action 18 February 1944. Jack Fishman believed that experience was the best education available and he ensured that he filled his life with as much as he could get: he achieved success as journalist, writer, and spycatcher. He worked his way up to become news editor, then deputy editor, of two of Britain's largest national newspapers, for the Kemsley newspaper group and later the Thomson organization. He then went on to edit Thomson's largest Sunday newspaper, Empire News, where he remained until the paper was sold to the News of the World in 1961. Fishman specialized in political journalism, and also had a particular interest in intelligence work. He was credited with the exposure of the most notorious spy Britain has ever known - Kim Philby. Following a tip from behind the Iron Curtain, the British government was alerted to the presence of a Russian agent within the Foreign Office. Fishman became convinced that Philby was the agent and set about using the national press to expose him. However, British libel laws prevented the story from being published in Britain, so, with the aid of two of Fishman's friends on the New York Daily News, the story was broken in America. The matter was then raised in Parliament, finally leading to Philby's defection to Moscow in 1963. Despite suggestions that Fishman was working for the CIA or MI5, he always claimed that he was merely acting as a journalist. . His first book had been published in 1954, The Seven Men of Spandau, about the seven Hitler henchmen who escaped the gallows at Nuremberg and were sentenced to be the sole inmates of the vast Spandau Prison in Berlin. His second, The Life of Joseph Stalin, was published in 1962, followed by My Darling Clementine (1963), a biography of Winston Churchill's wife. This was reprinted three times within the first month of its release, and became an instant best- seller in Britain and America, remaining in the list of top ten books for a further year. Based on his reaction to a pilot for a new American television show, in 1964 Fishman signed the literary rights to The Man From UNCLE, and was responsible for editing and co-publishing all the related books. In 1974 he published a collection of Winston Churchill's letters and documents, If I Lived My Life Again. He wrote two further best-sellers, the fictional KG200 (1977) and The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1982). Long Knives and Short Memories (1986) returned to the subject of Spandau Prison, concluding the story begun in his first book. Derived from a Kirkus review: In 1944 Amiens prison in northern France was filled, most with French Resistance patriots (most awaiting trial and horrible execution). The American and British powers-that-be determined that the D-Day invasion would have to be postponed unless the all-but-depleted Resistance forces, crucial to invasion-related intelligence, could be replenished (and re-inspired). So, with Dulles, Donovan, and Britain's "C" as masterminds, a plan was put together to bomb the prison and arrange for the safe escape of as many Resistance workers as possible -- with the vital help of French people in the area. The complications were staggering: the danger of the flying mission; the exactitude required in the bombing to maximize escape and minimize casualties; the peril from Gestapo agents among the populace; the search for hiding-places for the escapees. Such a tale resulted in a taut piece of WW II history/action. Fishman vows that "all events, scenes, and quotations stem from the testimony of eyewitnesses and documents." The narrative is likely to please.
Published by Souvenir Press,, London, 1982
Seller: Bergoglio Libri d'Epoca, RIVALBA, TO, Italy
(Codice AV/3088) In 8º (22 cm) 448 pp., 16 photographs. First edition. Hardcover, silver title, dust jacket. As new. Euro 9.00 All books are in stock in fine condition or described meticulously. Very safe packaging.
Published by Souvenir Press, [1982], 1982
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16 and front and rear endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first full account of Operation JERICHO, the low-level Mosquito raid on Amiens prison in February 1944 which claimed the life of Group Captain Pickard. Fishman approaches his subject with customary meticulousness, incorporating hundreds of participant and eye-witness statements, and intelligence co-operation from four countries. Enser, p.10.
Published by Souvenir Press, London, 1982
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Boards. 8vo, pp. 448, Index, b/w plates, endpaper maps, original boards, very good, in good d.j. faintly yellowed edges. Account of 'Operation Jericho,' WWII.
Published by Souvenir Press,, London, 1982
Seller: Harry E Bagley Books Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Amer. pp., 448, illustrated, 16 full page black & white plates, index, mapend-papes, a very good copy. The story of the Allied bombing raid on Amiens prison in Northern France where the Gastapo had imprisoned key member of the underground. The raid, titled operation "Jericho" resulted in a massive prisoner escape. Size: 8 Vo.,
Published by General Paperbacks, Toronto, 1984
ISBN 10: 0773782958ISBN 13: 9780773782952
Seller: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ONLY ONE MAN - CHARLES PIQUARD - COULD LEAD THE HISTORIC AIR ATTACK THAT WOULD SAVE THE HEROES OF D-DAY! CONTENTS: Preface; The Man Who Sold People; The American Connection; The Pint-Sized Giant; A Job for a Joshua; The Melting Pot; Best-Laid Plans; Courvoisier the Pimp; "New Boy"; Opportunity Knocks at Noon; The Madame and the Maid; Visibility Zero; Nobody Got Soup; A Burglar's Lot; Of Brothels and Men; Piggyback Nightmare; It's Safer in Jail; Requiem Mass; The Cycling Assassin; Postscript; Author's Notes and Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Dedication. SYNOPSIS: Intelligence didn't like it. Neither did the Air Ministry. But the Resistance men awaiting execution in Amiens prison were vital to the entire D-Day operation. They had to be rescued. And the Allies' only chance was to blow up the prison - and pray they didn't blow up the very men they were trying to free! It would take cunning, patience, and guts. It would hinge on the cooperation of spies, thieves, shot-down airmen, hookers, pickpockets, and forgers. And it would depend on the one man brave enough and crazy enough to lead the Mosquito Bomber attack - the legendary Charles Piquard. Together they would free more than seven hundred men and women, and save the heroes of D-Day from Nazi extinction! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Souvenir Press London, 1982
Seller: A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, United Kingdom
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First Edition
1st edn. UK, 448pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., street plan at front endpapers, map at rear endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, published simultaneously in Canada, an account of the background to the RAF bombing attack on the prison at Amiens, Operation Jericho in February 1944, designed to release the many resistance members recently captured and due for execution, of the operation itself by 18 RAF Mosquitos from 21, 464 and 487 Squadrons, and of the aftermath, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, sl. sunned at spine, lightly rubbed at tips, ISBN:0285625195 - very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
Published by Souvenir London 1982, 1982
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo 448pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, The Air attack on Amiens Prison to free prisoners of the Gestapo Prior to the Normandy Invasion.
Published by Souvenir London 1982, 1982
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 448pp., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, The Air attack on Amiens Prison to free prisoners of the Gestapo Prior to the Normandy Invasion.
Published by MacMillan New York 1982, 1982
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket As New octavo 422pp., b/w pls., ep maps, bibliog., index, The Air attack on Amiens Prison to free prisoners of the Gestapo Prior to the Normandy Invasion.
Published by MacMillan, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0025384708ISBN 13: 9780025384705
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Bottom of spine discolored. Edgewear, scuffed, some tears and creases at spine. 1/4" stain front panel. ; 9.3 X 5.7 X 1.6 inches; 422 pages.
Published by Souvenir London 1982, 1982
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 448pp., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, The Air attack on Amiens Prison to free prisoners of the Gestapo Prior to the Normandy Invasion.
Published by MacMillan, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0025384708ISBN 13: 9780025384705
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light transparent discoloration on top text block edge. Light bump at spine crown. ; 9.3 X 5.7 X 1.6 inches; 422 pages.