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Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War
de Beavan, Colin
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670037621
- ISBN 13
- 9780670037629
- Librería
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Viking; Penguin, 2006. xxviii, 401 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Lower right corners lightly bumped, age toning. First printing. Fine DJ. "The author of 'Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science' pens the thrilling, inside story of the secret "special operations" mission that paved the way for D-Day and changed the way America waged war." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
Sinopsis
A thrilling account of one of the most important covert operations of World War II In 1943, less than a year before D-Day, nearly three hundred American, British, and French soldiers?shadow warriors?parachuted deep behind enemy lines in France as part of the covert Operation Jedburgh. Working with the beleaguered French Resistance, the ?Jeds? launched a stunningly effective guerrilla campaign against the Germans in preparation for the Normandy invasion. Colin Beavan, whose grandfather helped direct Operation Jedburgh for the Office of Strategic Services, draws on scores of interviews with the surviving Jeds and their families to tell the thrilling story of the rowdy daredevils who carried out America?s first specialforces missions? forever changing the way Americans wage war.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS
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- Título
- Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War
- Autor
- Beavan, Colin
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670037621
- ISBN 13
- 9780670037629
- Editorial
- Viking; Penguin
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Tamaño
- 8vo
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