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Defending The Rock: Gibraltar And The Second World War (SCARCE PAPERBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, NICHOLAS RANKIN)
by Rankin, Nicholas
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571307728
- ISBN 13
- 9780571307722
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 2019. VG. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, NICHOLAS RANKIN, without dedication or inscription on title-page. xii,660pp. Illustrated with photographs and maps. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British seapower since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Francoist Spain, Gibraltar also had to let thousands of foreigners across its frontier to work every day. Among them came spies and saboteurs, eager to blow up the Rock's twenty-five miles of secret tunnels. With Index. Dusting to fore-edge; light reading creasing to spine; else a very good copy of a SCARCE first paperback edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, NICHOLAS RANKIN.. Signed by Author, Nicholas Rankin. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19191
- Title
- Defending The Rock: Gibraltar And The Second World War (SCARCE PAPERBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, NICHOLAS RANKIN)
- Author
- Rankin, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0571307728
- ISBN 13
- 9780571307722
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Military History. History. Military. War. Warfare. WW2. World War Two. Second World War. Gibraltar In World War Two. Ian Fleming. Anthony Burgess.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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