** Rare ** Helen MacInnes Assignment in Brittany 1st UK Edition in D/J 1942

Author: Helen McInnes

Title: Assignment in Brittany 

Publication:  First Edition 1st Impression Published By George G Harrap & Co London 1942……….(See Pictures) 

Condition and Status of The Book and Dust-Jacket: 

This is a Very Good Copy of this book in publisher’s Original Brown Cloth with white title lettering to spine in a Good Dust-Jacket with several small nicks and tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper including a 3cm chip to the base of spine.Not price clipped with 9/- net showing to the front flap.There are no former inscriptions or owner’s names present.There is a little bumping/indentations to the top edge of the outer boards.Contents remain clean internally.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness and with NO loose pages etc.Rare title and the Author’s 2nd novel.A master of the espionage genre MacInnes’s second novel was made required reading for Allied intelligence agents who were being sent to work with the French resistance against the Nazis. It was featured on the New York Times first fiction bestseller list in 1942 and the plot centres around a British agent a real hero Hearne, who is discovered to be the spitting image of a guy who had been picked up wounded in a battle with Axis forces, one Bertrand Corlay. This fellow Corlay, a French Chap from Brittany will spend the rest of the war in the hospital. Here is an opportunity to send Hearne in his place. Hearne learns him well, his language nuances, his town, the people there, what they do and who they are. Hearne learns Corlay’s business, and even had a cosmetic birthmark applied, which comes in handy later. He is going to drop in by parachute, take up the role of Corlay, and find out all info about the state of things in Brittany, and report back regularly.Rare and Sought after title,8vo 322pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1942] 

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