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London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.319; [1], blank. With photographic plates. Publisher's hardback cloth, diagrammatic yellow endpapers and top edge tinted red, in a pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Ray Hawkey (uncredited). Top edge sunned else fine in a near fine p/c jacket with very little of the usual fading to the red spine lettering. Following 'Fighter', Deighton's acclaimed account of the Battle of Britain, the author shines a torchlight on Germany's lightning war on the ground. Item #71807
Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.38.
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