Author: Hansson, Per (trans.from Norwegian by Maurice Michael),
Title: THE GREATEST GAMBLE.
Description: George Allen and Unwin, Lonndon, 1967 1st edn., 180pp, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, upper edge coloured, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the true story of Gunvald Tomstad, a Norwegian farmer, patriot and owner of a two way radio who, with a group of friends, planned the downfall of the German invader. To this end he donned the uniform of the National Socialist party, to all outward appearances a opportunist Quisling who was then shunned by his other friends and despised by his fellow countrymen but in fact he was playing a double game, protecting his radio base so that contact could be maintained with the Allies, being above suspicion as a Nazi sympathiser, a little bumped at cnrs., edges a little tanned and foxed, ex-RAF Church Fenton library with stamps and label residue on front endpapers (only), dustwrapper: rubbed with slight flaking at extrems. repaired to reverse, spine sunned, very good reading copy in a good plus dustwrapper

Keywords: war ww2 norway flekkefjord


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