Hansson, Per (trans.from Norwegian by Maurice Michael),
THE GREATEST GAMBLE.
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
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Keywords: war ww2 norway flekkefjord