THE NAZI HUNTERS: THE ULTRA-SECRET SAS UNIT AND THE QUEST FOR HITLER'S WAR CRIMINALS.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with red+ white lettering,and colour photographic illustrated rear panel of dw/dj, with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain mauve endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xxipp+1-425pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author's note,a preface,30 chapters and an afterword,an epilogue,an end note, 8pp historical contemporary b/w photographs and illustrations in 1 block, between pppp202/3,a bibliography,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and 2 single-page b/w regional area (mission area+area of operatons) maps. In the late summer of 1944 sixty SAS were parachuted into the Vosages Mountains of northeastern France - the last bulwark of the defences of Hitler's Reich.There the Fuhrer had ordered his forces make a last-ditch stand,to prevent the Allies from marching into the Fatherland.Dropped some five hundred miles behind enemy lines,the SAS were tasked with wreaking havoc and bloody mayhem,ensuring that Hitler's do-or-die defence would fail.From the very start these sixty men were hunted by thousands of crack German troops,as they blew up railways,ammo dumps and road convoys,and targeted high-ranking enemy officers.At mission's end thirty-one SAS were listed as "missing - fate unknown".In truth,they faced a horrific fate at the hands of their captors.The man who had commanded this mission refused to let their killers escape justice. Faced with the post-war disbandment of the SAS,Colonel Brian Franks MC formed a top-secret,clandestine SAS unit.Under the auspices of Winston Churchill,this deniable "Man Hunting" force was paid and equipped from out of a black budget in a deep cover operation lasting through 1948 and beyond. Across war-ravaged Europe they hunted down the Nazi war criminals, plus those who had run the notorious concentrations camps,stumbling upon some of the darkest secrets of the new war - the Cold War.Known as 'The Secret Hunters',this force was peopled by a cast of characters more extraordinary than any fiction:Captain Henry Druce,who waged war from his jeep in a silk top hat and corduroys; Captain John Hislop,a champion jockey who was evicted from his former regiment for showing a 'regrettable lack of military aptitude'; and Russian Prince Yurka Galitzine, the fabulously well-connected grandmaster of black operations.Still studied by the SAS today,'The Nazi Hunters' are a founding part of the Regiment's myth,constituting one of the great untold stories of the Second World War. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!