Operation Willi : The Nazi Plot to Capture the Duke of Windsor.
Bloch, Michael.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson,
Date Published: 1986.
Description: The book has 575 pages including Notes and Bibliography and 14 pages of black and white photos. STATED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. The condition of the book is NEAR FINEwith front lower board slightly bumped. Very small ink mark on front fly page. The page edges are yellowing and minor deckling on the top edge. The jacket is in FINE condition with minor crimping and tearing on the spine edges. The Dust Jacket Reads: After years of exhaustive research, Michael Bloch, the editor of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's private love letters,uncovers the details of one of the greatest remaining mysteries of World War II. While answering the question, he also discloses the extrordinary plot conveived by Ribbentrop. the Third Reich's Foreign Minister, apparently approved by Hitler, to kidnap the Duke, with the intention of restoring him to the English throne-under Berman control. The suspicion has always been that the Duke gave the Nazis reason the believe that he would go along with this plan. The existence of this plot became known with the publication of captured German telegrams in 1957, but the tangled web of conspiracy has never been unraveled;; the motives of the plotters and the Duke's awareness of their intentions have never become clear. Based on the Duke's own archives as well as on many other unpublished papers, 'Operation Willi" is indeed "an erudite, gripping piece of historical detection..Sleuth Bloch has unravelled a mysterious multi-plot spy drama of epic proportions."--Radio Times "Michael Bloch is to be congratulated. In this smoothly written, fast-moving book he has produced a real coup, the sort of thing historians dream of."-The Daily Telegraph JMVINTAGE specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor..and other curious people.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj
ISBN: 15555840205
Book Id: 888
Price: $16.50
