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An Underworld at War - Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

Name: An Underworld at War
Price: 3.99 EUR
Author: Donald Thomas
ISBN: 9781471916663

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Donald Thomas

The Murder Room
Paru le : 17/09/2014

The Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice, but it also made many people rich. Under the cover of war, crime ranging from opportunistic... > Lire la suite

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The Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice, but it also made many people rich. Under the cover of war, crime ranging from opportunistic looting to systematic theft was able to flourish. Donald Thomas draws on extensive archive material to reveal the ingenuity and sheer scale of wartime criminality, making fascinating reading of one of the great untold stories of the war.'A mesmerising, unputdownable and brilliantly researched page-turner' Sunday Times

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Date de parution : 17/09/2014
Editeur : The Murder Room
Collection : Murder Room
ISBN : 978-1-4719-1666-3
EAN : 9781471916663
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Donald Thomas

Donald Thomas was born in Somerset and educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He was the author of numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He was also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems POINTS OF CONTACT.