Wheatley,Dennis — Stranger Than Fiction

Hutchinson & Co This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's red coloured cloth with white title lettering to spine blocked in blue in a Good Dust-Jacket,that has a few small nicks and tears to the outer edges of the d/j.Not Price clipped with (25s net) showing to front flap.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with no leaning to spine.The large folding map at the rear of the book is in excellent condition.Complete with a total of 10 maps and illustrations including b&w frontispiece.The text block remains clean internally.With neither special information nor privilege, Dennis Wheatley wrote of the problems that faced our war leaders in a fashion which was fresh and challenging and so eminently sensible that his views achieved an influence out of all proportion to his own expectations. The fourteen Papers range diversely from Resistance to Invasion, filled with ingenious, unorthodox and extremely practical suggestions for repulsing an invading host, to the penetrating appreciation of what was to face us After the Battle. And so remarkably sound and useful were they that in the result Wheatley became the only civilian ever to be commissioned directly into the Joint Planning Staff. 8vo 364pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1959] Near Fine Good First Edition 1st Printing London 8vo