
ACT OF WAR
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Simon and Schuster, New York, 1082, 1st/1st. ISBN 0-671-25610-6. Hard cover, 396 pages. Good plus; lower spine end pushed; binding tight with headbands; publisher’s remainder logo on bottom edge. Dust jacket with price intact shows edge and cover wear, wear at corners and spine ends, short edge tears; old water mark at bottom edge along spine. Prior owner’s name inked at upper fore-edge corner of front paste-down; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; bit of pink has bled onto lower edges of front and rear end papers and paste-downs. ‘The sinking of the French luxury liner Normandie has long remained one of the most fascinating mysteries of World War II. Docked in New York after the fall of France, she was guarded by the FBI, the police, and the Coast Guard – yet she burned and sank. Now, drawing on hitherto secret files of the FBI, Leonard Sanders has recreated one of the most daring episodes of the war.’ (from front flap)