A Man Called Intrepid The Secret War 1939-1945 by Stevenson William

Sphere, 1978. Paperback. Good. 1978. Reprinted. 511 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardback. Acceptable.

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan Of London Limited, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good. The corners are worn but not torn, some illustrations in the 486 pages. The dust jacket is not price clipped but has a 3 cm tear at top of spine.

Sphere Books, 1988. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UK: Sphere, 1977 A man called Intrepid. The secret war 1939-1945. A clean and tightly bound book. Page edges tanned. Tape marks on IFC.

London: Macmillan, 1976. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 486. Illustrated with a suit of black and white photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £4.95. Contents clean, text block toned in gatherings, ink ownership to flyleaf, jacket a little edge worn. A very good copy. Basis for the 1979 mini-series starring David Niven, this is the story of the covert BSC security agency under William Stephenson (1897-1989) who was Winston Churchill's personal choice to led British Intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. Known by his wartime intelligence codename "Intrepid", his friend and colleague Ian Fleming described him as the 'real James Bond'. The similarly-named author was a war correspondent and Royal Navy fighter pilot.