THE DECEIVERS: ALLIED MILITARY DECEPTION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.[Two Volume s/cased Set.]

UK,8vo HB+s/case,1st edn,2 Vols set. MINT/MINT. Original sealing sellophane wrapping in situ,only opened to verify issue and state of books,when purchased.[Originally and first published in USA+UK as a single volume in 2004 by Scribner and Weidenfeld & Nicolson respectively.A paperback edition,containing revisions by the author,was also published by Skyhorse Publishing (NY,USA) in 2007. This FS edition follows the text of that 2007 paperback edition,with some minor emendations.This edition is published by arrangement with Scribner,an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,and the Orion Publishing Group Ltd.] MINT/MINT.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - slipcased - as issued.Bright,crisp,clean, black paper-covered card slipcases; with negligible shelf-wear - if any at all - to edges and corners.Volume 1: Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original grey cloth boards blocked in 12,black and/ or red ink and silvered gilt squares of British services formations insignias to upper board - same design repeated to upper board of Vol 2 also - both rear boards plain and not decorated.Title with author+ publisher's colophon in bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt to spine/ backstrip,with a black ink Volume number within a silver gilt edged,red inked,small circle towards foot of same,a red+grey striped headband, and immaculate silvered grey endpapers.Top+fore-edge bright,clean and pristine; contents bright,tight,clean and pristine - unread.UK,8vo HB +s/case,1st edn,viii-xxivpp+2-501pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,foreword by Michael Howard,author preface,list of abbreviations,a prologue (1862-1940),13 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp56/7, pp216/17 and pp376/7 respectively.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w portrait illustrated frntis (Brigadier Dudley W. Clarke,CB,CBE.),title page,contents list/table,a dedication and 2pp blanks at rear.
Vol 2: Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original grey cloth boards blocked in 12,black and/or red ink and silvered gilt squares of British services formations insignias to upper board - rear board plain and undecorated.Title with author+publisher's colophon in bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt to spine/backstrip,with a black ink Volume number within a silver gilt edged,red inked,small circle towards foot of same,a red+grey striped headband,and immaculate silvered grey endpapers.Top+ fore-edges bright,clean and pristine; contents bright,tight, clean and pristine too - unread.UK,8vo HB+s/case,1st edn, viiipp+504-1030pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,5 chapters (XIV- XVIII) and epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block, between pp606/7,an addendum,appendices (I-IV - Appendix IV comprises 17 b/w war theatres maps),a bibliography, references and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w portrait photographic frntis (Mountbatten & MacArthur),title page,and contents list/table.Both volumes typeset in Plantin at The Folio Society.Printed on Abbey Wove paper at Cambridge University Press.Bound by them in full blocked cloth.
The contents of the two books describe what the Allied Forces did to deceive and disrupt the enemy during the Second World War.
The previous two alpha-numerical, sequential book ID's (i.e. rja526915 and rja527015) are UNIFORM in style and appearance with this 2 vol set.
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