The Dark City: Being an Account of the Adventures of a Secret Agent in Berlin (Classics of World War II).

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1992.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: tan marbled boards with half black imitation leather (corners and spine), all edges gilt, ribbon place marker, a Very Good+ book... 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Printed endpapers. Description: Originally published in 1954, this reprint edition is part of the Time-Life World War II Classics series, The Secret War. ''One of the most bizarre and fascinating eyewitness tales of espionage to come out of World war II. The book's hero is not just sent behind enemy lines -- he is dispatched by the American intelligence agency on a wildly improbable mission into Berlin. Sneaking into Germany through occupied Denmark, in a truck packed with fish and lobsters -- he soon finds that his assigned mission to establish a sabotage team is redundant, to say the least. Waves of Allied aircraft rain bombs on Berlin, pounding the city into rubble. Spying quickly takes a back seat to merely surviving. The narrator gives a detailed and compassionate picture of what it was like to be inside a dying Berlin during the last weeks of Nazi rule.'' This copy includes the publisher's insert.