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Ardennes The Secret War
by Charles Whiting
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1580970699
- ISBN 13
- 9781580970693
- Seller
-
Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From the front dust jacket flap: "Following the greatest failure of Allied intelligence since Pearl Harbor, on the morning of 16 December 1944, a huge German army of 600,000 men smashed into the American troops who were holding the line in the snowbound hills of the Belgian Ardennes." "A handful of German special forces wearing U.S. uniforms and driving U.S. equipment, operating behind the U.S. lines, caused chaos and havoc." "...nearly turned a German defeat into victory at a time when the Top Brass were predicting it would all be over by Christmas. Book - Very Good condition. Black textured cover with gold gilt on spine. Very light spots on front cover. Black "R" in marker on front end paper and black remainder mark on bottom of closed book pages. Text is clean and binding is tight. Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Light rubbing/bumping. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Please use photos as part of the description. 196 pages including Index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1926
- Title
- Ardennes The Secret War
- Author
- Charles Whiting
- Format/Binding
- Paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st U.S. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1580970699
- ISBN 13
- 9781580970693
- Publisher
- Combined Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Conshohoken, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- August 2001
- Pages
- 196
- Keywords
- WWII, World War II, Nazi, Germany, Hitler, special forces, world history, history, American history, soldiers, Belgian, Ardennes
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - World War II;
Terms of Sale
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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About the Seller
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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Independence, Missouri
About Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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- Jacket
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- Remainder Mark
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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