Author: BURGESS Alan
Title: Seven Men at Daybreak. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Evans Brothers,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at extremities. The first account of Operation ANTHROPOID, the assassination of Heydrich by Czech partisans working with SOE and its terrible aftermath at Lidice and elsewhere. The basis of Lewis Gilbert's feature film 'Operation Daybreak' (1975) starring Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw and Joss Ackland. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.122.

Keywords: military, espionage, ww2, wwii, heydrich, reinhard heydrich, soe, special operations executive, czechoslovakia, moravia, lidice, alan burgess


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