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The War Magician, The Man who Conjured Victory in the Desert
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The War Magician, The Man who Conjured Victory in the Desert

Author: David Fisher

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 when the desert war began. 

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 when the desert war began. 

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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 when the desert war began. Here, he used his unique 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 helped win the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an entire dummy army in the middle of the desert.

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Author
David Fisher
Publisher
Orion Publishing Group
Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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Type
General History
Language
English
Subtitle
The Man who Conjured Victory in the Desert
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
368
Release Date
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Publication Date
2022
Dimensions
14x21 cm
ISBN-13
9781474625340

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