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The War Magician. The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne
Description
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 where the desert war had just begun. He used his 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 won the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an entire dummy army in the middle of the desert.show more
Product details
- Format Paperback | 320 pages
- Dimensions 130 x 196 x 26mm | 299.38g
- Publication date 13 Oct 2005
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Cassell Military
- Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
- Language English
- Illustrations note Illustrations, ports.
- ISBN10 0304367095
- ISBN13 9780304367092
- Bestsellers rank 1,160,738