Item #70476 Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain. Len DEIGHTON, A. J P. TAYLOR, born 1929.
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.

Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. [Military history] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS PUBLISHER. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.304. Blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, red endpapers, top edge red, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £4.95. With many photographic plates. With presentation note to title page; To Tom and Fay - with all my love - Len Deighton 15 Sept 1977. Gentle spotting to fore-edge else a clean copy. Fine. Deighton's acclaimed account of Germany's first major defeat of the Second World War. This copy was inscribed on the day of publication to Tom Maschler (1933-2020), the influential chairman of Jonathan Cape who founded the prestigious Booker Prize, awarded for best fiction in the English Language. Item #70476

Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.54.

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