Papa Spy.

HARDBACK "WWII HISTORY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st FNL.* Date of Publication: 2010. * Publisher: Walker & Company. * Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards, silver title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no shelf wear, seems lightly used. FINE.* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a city street scene with black titles to spine and black, red and white titles to face. Absolutely minimal shelf wear, now in a clear un-attached protective cover. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight age marks to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 16pp. b/w photos. * Pages: 344 pp. text. liii pp. appendices, bibliography, photo index, notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: With the declaration of war in 1939, dashing young publisher, Tom Burns, left his business for the Ministry of Information, the propaganda arm of the British secret services, and found himself in Madrid as press attaché at the British embassy. Spurred on by his deep love of Spain, he threw himself into the propaganda war against the Nazis, who broadcast freely to the Spanish press. Spain was officially "nonbelligerent" during the war. But nonbelligerent doesn't mean unimportant: Spain held Gibraltar, and so controlled the western Mediterranean. Germany desperately wanted Gibraltar and the Mediterranean for itself, and it was the responsibility of Tom Burns and the rest of the British Ministry of Information to do everything in their power to keep that from happening.* A FINE copy of the 1st./1st. FNL with some minimal age in a FINE dust jacket now in a clear un-attached protective cover.*