DRIVEN TO IT is the life story of a writer whose name half a century ago was on everybody's lips and concerning whose first two books, MADELEINE published in 1952 and THE STARR AFFAIR published in 1954, indignant questions were asked in Parliament. The furore she created then is partly forgotten now, but only because its consquences - and its content - have passed into people's general awareness of the history of Europe and the tragedies of World War Two. In the nineteen fifties Jean Overton Fuller's books broke fresh ...
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DRIVEN TO IT is the life story of a writer whose name half a century ago was on everybody's lips and concerning whose first two books, MADELEINE published in 1952 and THE STARR AFFAIR published in 1954, indignant questions were asked in Parliament. The furore she created then is partly forgotten now, but only because its consquences - and its content - have passed into people's general awareness of the history of Europe and the tragedies of World War Two. In the nineteen fifties Jean Overton Fuller's books broke fresh ground, for she was the first person publicly to describe the shadowy, complicated and (in some respects) sadly mismanaged French Section of the British Special Operations Executive.
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First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 376, [8] plates. Original publisher's maroon cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 9780859553063 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Very Good. 2007. Hardcover. E. scarce. Fine in fine dust wrapper and mylar book wrap. Review copy with publisher's compliments slip, for publication date of 28 June 2007......We ship daily from our Bookshop.