The March on London : Covert Operations in the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944

Whiting, Charles

ISBN 10: 0850522994 / ISBN 13: 9780850522990

Published by Leo Cooper, United Kingdom, 1992

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192pp, plus numerous pages of black and white illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. (Boards strong, clean, sharp, and square.) Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (tiny indentation at head of spine). Dust jacket now protected in an archival-quality mylar sleeve which is not adhered to the volume or the jacket. There are few written records of this extraordinary story and Charles Whiting has pieced it together largely through interviews with the few survivors. Charles Whiting, second world war veteran and historian, Charles also wrote under the names Leo Kessler, Duncan Sterling, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan and others. Almost always writing on a war or military theme, whether fact or fiction, by the time of his death in 2007, Whiting was known as a phenomena of the publishing industry, with more than 350 titles to his (several) names, most associated with accurately researched and well-written war histories and novels with a war background drenched in sex and violence. He has become collectible, especially for novels and histories published under his own name and those of Ian Harding, Leo Kessler and John Kerrigan. We have many titles by the same author - please inquire for discounts if purchasing multiple titles.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The March on London : Covert Operations in the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
• Publisher: Leo Cooper, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850522994
• ISBN 13: 9780850522990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • War, Military History and Weapons

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Synopsis

By December 1944, Britain was denuded of fighting troops. Every man capable of handling a rifle was needed at the front on the Continent. Behind them they had left the lame, middle-aged soldiers or unfit men, many of them engaged in guarding the 250,000 very fit young Germans who were now scattered throughout the British Isles in their POW cages. Even the most determined Nazis among them knew there was no escape - so why try? But since September 1944, when the first German paratroops had started arriving at the cages in large numbers, the mood of these "tame" POWs had begun to change. They had become more truculent and had set up networks of hard-core Nazis and fighting men ("the blacks", as they were called by their British guards), who really ruled the camps behind the backs of the British. For the German High Command in Berlin had infiltrated their agents into all the most important camps in the UK, and it was their task to plan a mass breakout which would coincide with the start of Hitler's last great offensive in the West - the Battle of the Bulge. But this would be no ordinary escape - it was one with a strategic purpose, for the plotters planned no less than a march on London in a determined attempt to capture the capital of the British Empire. This account of the episode is a tale of double-dealing and treachery, which caused intense alarm at that last Christmas of World War II, and which ended in murder and retribution.