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ISBN10: 1848840268, ISBN13: 9781848840263, [publisher: Pen and Sword Military] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1848840268, ISBN13: 9781848840263, [publisher: Pen & Sword Military] Softcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers [Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1848840268, ISBN13: 9781848840263, [publisher: Pen and Sword Military] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1848840268, ISBN13: 9781848840263, [publisher: Pen & Sword Military] Softcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers [Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1848840268, ISBN13: 9781848840263, [publisher: Pen and Sword Military] Softcover Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1848840268, ISBN13: 9781848840263, [publisher: Pen and Sword Military] Softcover Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, Date: 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Light reading crease to spine. 2009. Pen and Sword Military ISBN 1848840268 9781848840263 [GB]
Pen & Sword Military, UK, Date: 2009. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 212 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pen & Sword Military, UK, 2009. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first reaction to Leonard Sellers fascinating account of the spies who were executed in the Tower of London during the First World War is likely to be one of amazement at their ineptitude. Not one of them seems to have had any proper training or any idea of how to set about the job. This, of course raises the intriguing question: how many others were there who did know what they were up to and managed to escape detection? However, thanks to the more liberal attitude now prevalent regarding access to hitherto 'sensitive' material and to years of dogged research by Len Sellers, the remarkable, but somehow pathetic, stories of the eleven foreign agents who were caught and subsequently shot in the Tower for espionage can now be told. In these days when a mind-boggling array of equipment is available for the assimilation and transmission of supposedly secret information their antics strike one as little short of farcical, but for their efforts, inspired, it seems, more often by greed than patriotism, these men paid the ultimate price and paid it in the most historic site in Britain.Whether they deserved their fate, or indeed the niche in history which this book gives them, is for the reader to decide. What cannot be denied is that their ...
ISBN10: 1848840268, ISBN13: 9781848840263, [publisher: Pen & Sword Military, UK] Softcover Trade Paperback. 212 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pen & Sword Military, UK, 2009. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first reaction to Leonard Sellers fascinating account of the spies who were executed in the Tower of London during the First World War is likely to be one of amazement at their ineptitude. Not one of them seems to have had any proper training or any idea of how to set about the job. This, of course raises the intriguing question: how many others were there who did know what they were up to and managed to escape detection? However, thanks to the more liberal attitude now prevalent regarding access to hitherto 'sensitive' material and to years of dogged research by Len Sellers, the remarkable, but somehow pathetic, stories of the eleven foreign agents who were caught and subsequently shot in the Tower for espionage can now be told. In these days when a mind-boggling array of equipment is available for the assimilation and transmission of supposedly secret information their antics strike one as little short of farcical, but for their efforts, inspired, it seems, more often by greed than patriotism, these men paid the ultimate price and paid it in the most historic site in Britain.Whether they deserved their fate, or indeed the niche in history which this book gives them, is for the reader to decide. What c ...
Pen & Sword Military 2009 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white.
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