THE LAST RAID: THE COMMANDOS, CHANNEL ISLANDS AND FINAL NAZI RAID.
by FOWLER, WILL:
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- ISBN 10
- 0750966378
- ISBN 13
- 9780750966375
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour+b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj,front and rear respectively with grey+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-223pp [paginated] includes a foreword,an introduction,15 chapters,16pp historical, contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp128/9, appendices (I-VI),a bibliography,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a contents list/table.
When Germany occupied the originally 'demilitarised' Channel Islands in 1940,Hitler ordered the area to be staunchily fortified with colossal permanent structures like Battery Moltke on Jersey.As it was the only piece of the British Isles in Nazi control,he was determined that the islands should remain German forever. Churchill was equally obsessed,urging numerous commando raids and hare-brained schemes for the invasion and liberation of the islands.But when France was freed in 1944,the Channel Islands were completely bypassed.German troops were cut off from their supplies and the island population began to starve.Occupied for almost the entire war,these quintessentially English islands serve as a fascinating microcosm of what Britain might have been like under Nazi rule.With one German soldier to every three islanders, resistance had to remain at a low level: possession of a radio merited a prison sentence. 'The Last Raid' is an atmospheric account of life under German occupation,as well as the political manoeuvring behind the scenes. With the first detailed account in English of the Granville Raid,a unique German commando operation,Will Fowler combines the social experience of war with the military to form a fascinating chronicle of the fight for the Channel Islands during the Second World War. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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- Title
- THE LAST RAID: THE COMMANDOS, CHANNEL ISLANDS AND FINAL NAZI RAID.
- Author
- FOWLER, WILL:
- Illustrator
- illus with contemporary b/w photographs.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE+.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE+.
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0750966378
- ISBN 13
- 9780750966375
- Publisher
- UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE,2016.
- Place of Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire, Uk
- This edition first published
- 2016
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