Author: Foot, M. R. D. and Langley, J. M.,
Title: MI9 - The British secret service that fostered escape and evasion 1939-1945 and its American counterpart.
Description: Bodley Head, London, 1979, 1st edn., 365pp, half tone frontis and several in text maps and ills. in line, grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper illustrated on lower panel, account of the work of department of British Military Intelligence MI9 (and later its American counterpart MIS-X) that trained the armed forces in escape techniques, exchanged coded messages with them once captured and supplied them with hidden escape materials in otherwise innocent parcels, as well as setting up an infrastructure of escape lines through occupied Europe, faintly bumped at upper tips, light tanning to edges, small blemish to paper of front endpapers, dustwrapper: unpriced, slight partial sunning to upper panel, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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