Operation Fish: The Race To Save Europe's Wealth 1939-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the desperate opening years of the Second World War, as Nazi forces swept across Europe with terrifying speed, the Allied nations faced a crisis that history rarely remembers: the urgent, clandestine mission to spirit billions of pounds in gold bullion and securities out of Europe's reach before Hitler's Wehrmacht could seize them. Operation Fish chronicles this extraordinary, largely untold story of financial warfare — a race against time that stretched from the vaults of the Bank of England to the shores of Canada, involving Royal Navy warships, merchant vessels, and an audacious logistical gamble of staggering proportions. Alfred Draper reconstructs this gripping chapter of wartime history with meticulous research and a pacy, authoritative narrative style that reads with the tension of a thriller. Weaving together the human drama of the sailors, bankers, and statesmen who participated in the operation, the book illuminates the often-overlooked economic dimensions of the Allied war effort — revealing how the fate of Western civilisation hinged not only on the battlefield, but in the counting houses and cargo holds of a desperate, darkened Atlantic. For any reader who thought they knew the full story of the Second World War, Operation Fish opens a vault that has long been sealed.
Author: Alfred Draper
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Cassell, London
Genre: WW2
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the desperate opening years of the Second World War, as Nazi forces swept across Europe with terrifying speed, the Allied nations faced a crisis that history rarely remembers: the urgent, clandestine mission to spirit billions of pounds in gold bullion and securities out of Europe's reach before Hitler's Wehrmacht could seize them. Operation Fish chronicles this extraordinary, largely untold story of financial warfare — a race against time that stretched from the vaults of the Bank of England to the shores of Canada, involving Royal Navy warships, merchant vessels, and an audacious logistical gamble of staggering proportions. Alfred Draper reconstructs this gripping chapter of wartime history with meticulous research and a pacy, authoritative narrative style that reads with the tension of a thriller. Weaving together the human drama of the sailors, bankers, and statesmen who participated in the operation, the book illuminates the often-overlooked economic dimensions of the Allied war effort — revealing how the fate of Western civilisation hinged not only on the battlefield, but in the counting houses and cargo holds of a desperate, darkened Atlantic. For any reader who thought they knew the full story of the Second World War, Operation Fish opens a vault that has long been sealed.