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The War Magician

The man who conjured victory in the desert

Paru le : 2011-11-03

The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.Soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch'A richly entertaining read' SUNDAY TIMESJasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. Wh...
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The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.

Soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch

'A richly entertaining read' SUNDAY TIMES

Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Egypt when the desert war began.

Here, he used his unique skills to save the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers and to 'hide' the Suez Canal from them. He invented all sorts of camouflage methods to make trucks look like tanks and vice versa. On Malta he developed 'the world's first portable holes': fake bomb craters used to fool the Germans into thinking they had hit their targets.

His war culminated in the brilliant deception plan that helped win the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an entire dummy army in the middle of the desert.

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Auteur
David Fisher
Éditeur
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Collection
n.c
Parution
2011-11-03
Pages
320 pages
EAN papier
9781474625340

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Defaut-Illustration David Fisher

Caractéristiques détaillées - droits

EAN EPUB
9781780222042
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3,99 €
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0
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0
Taille du fichier
1423 Ko
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