Description: Please read item descriptionTHE WAR MAGICIAN(DAVID FISHER)“The outbreak of the 1939 war, foretelling inevitable misery to everyone, meant different things to different people. For me, it involved something very strange and rather alarming – the focusing of my whole imagination and knowledge on how best to mobilize the world of magic against Hitler.” Jasper Maskelyne.Jasper Maskelyne was drinking a glass of razor blades on a London stage when World War II began. Shortly thereafter he was working before a different audience – Rommel’s Afrika Korps – in one of the most extraordinary true adventures to emerge from the war. With a hand-picked group of men known as The Magic Gang, Maskelyne secretly conducted one of the strangest campaigns in the recorded history of warfare.Using the technique of stage magic, Maskelyne and The Magic Gang confounded Rommel with the most incredible array of illusions and special effects ever produced on a battlefield: They hid the Suez Canal, they moved Alexandria Harbour, they turned tanks into trucks, they created an entire army out of shadow, launched a phantom fleet of submarines and a 700-foot battleship. The greatest trick of all brought the desert campaign to an early, life-saving close.The War Magician is the larger-than-life story of an exceptional man and a fascinating re-creation of virtually unknown events in military history.ISBN 0 552 12509 1 This 1985 edition paperback is in very good overall condition and unread, although there are some signs of wear to the cover in the form of very minor bumps and knocks to the edges and corners (see photograph). All pages are present, tightly bound, and free from tears, creases, and significant marks although they do display very light age-related discolouration to the page edges. The book runs to 427 pages (17.5cm x 10.5cm) plus an additional 16 pages of photographs.
Price: 7.75 GBP
Location: Malton, North Yorkshire
End Time: 2025-01-10T13:40:01.000Z
Shipping Cost: 20.08 GBP
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Type: Books
Era: 1914-1945
Conflict: World War II (1939-1945)
Country/ Organization: Great Britain
Service: Army
Theme: Militaria
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
