Stokes, Donald, - MEN BEHIND VICTORY.Hutchinson, London, ND [1944], 1st edn., 168pp, frontis and 14pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in white at spine, based on and expanded from a series of radio plays broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1943, an account of some of the men behind the increase in effort that winning WW2 required, including, for instance: the arrangements made for building ships for Britain in the USA, the planning of the type, weight and construction of bombs for the RAF's campaign, the gathering of tiny scraps of information from many sources that can result in useful intelligence, the work of the merchant airmen, etc., a little rubbed and lightly bumped at extrems., spine sl. sunned, edges tanned with some foxing, no dustwrapper, good plus, GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 10.45 | JP¥ 1559] Book number 36854is offered by:
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