London Calling North Pole
( SOE ) ( SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE ) GISKES, Hermann
[With Appendix by H.M.G. Lauwers. Third Edition.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Kimber, [1953]
Stock code: 48171
Price: £58.00
8vo., Third Edition, small neat signature on paste-downs; original ivory cloth, gilt back, boards lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper browned at backstrip.
With dustwrapper artwork by Roy Sanford. Published nine montha after the first edition. The first public disclosure in English of the remarkable 'Englandspiel', arguably SOE's greatest scandal in the Low Countries. For some twenty months during 1942-3, SOE's radio links with its agents in Holland were read and 'turned' by the Abwehr with many tragic losses. Written by the Abwehr officer responsible, it was first published in Amsterdam in 1949 as 'Abwehr III F. De duitse contrespionage in Nederland'. Foot terms it 'honest and straightforward'. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.398.