Get Rommel
ASHER, Michael
The Secret British Mission to kill Hitler's Greatest General. [Operation FLIPPER].
NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [2004]
Stock code: 28455
Price: £18.00
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Detailed modern account of FLIPPER, the audacious atempt in 1941 to capture Rommel in his desert HQ. Inevitably covers the formative days of the SAS and volunteer commandos, including Bob Laycock and Geoffrey Keyes, the latter awarded a posthumous VC for the attack.