Black Boomerang - An Autobiography, Volume II [only]
by Delmer, Sefton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670170917
- ISBN 13
- 9780670170913
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About This Item
London: Secker & Warburg. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670170917 . "[Presents] the story of [Sefton Delmer's] secret 'Black Radio' operation in World War 2 - and how it has boomeranged today. In this, the second volume of his autobiography, he explains the use to which his unique knowledge of the German people was put. The task of his special section of the Political Warfare Executive was to launch broadcast propaganda which purported to come from a German station. Much of what was broadcast was the truth - gleaned often from the tapped conversations of German prisoners - much of it had a ring of truth, sometimes it even deceived our American allies, always it purported to come from patriotic Germans eager to expose the weaknesses and corruption which were impeding the noble Fuhrer's efforts. Provides fascinating examples of actual broadasts, of deceptions practised, of lies disseminated, of new techniques whereby he and the merry men of his ghost station 'Soldatensender Calais' were able to take over the wavelength of German radio stations driven off the air by radio." - dust jacket. 320 pages. Index. Former library copy with usual markings. Major spine lean. Heavy overall wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this WWII propaganda classic. Cole p.256, The Secret Wars - Vol I - #186, Enser p.360, Select Bibliography of Revisionist Books (Supplement).; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 337h6071
- Title
- Black Boomerang - An Autobiography, Volume II [only]
- Author
- Delmer, Sefton
- Illustrator
- Barrett, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670170917
- ISBN 13
- 9780670170913
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- 0670170917, political warfare executive, black propaganda, black men, propaganda, Sefton Delmer, radio propaganda, Soldatensender Calais
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Covert Operations;
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