Air Mission to Algiers

(price-clipped) [solid, clean book, with minimal shelfwear, attractive vintage bookplate on front pastedown, tiny bookseller's label at bottom of ffep (Langley Book Shop, Newton Centre, Massachusetts); jacket shows some wear at edges and ends of spine, a few tiny tears and associated creasing at top and bottom edges of rear panel]. Juvenile war/adventure novel involving a Texas A&M freshman (with the great name of Sam Houston Moody) who leaves college to take a job with an American oil company in Iraq. His subsequent adventures involve being taken captive by a Nazi submarine, escaping across the desert with a young Arab companion, and foiling a German plan to incite a revolt among the desert tribes and thereby thwart the landing of American troops in North Africa -- "an up-to-the-minute, fast-moving story, with plenty of flying in it, that every adventure-loving boy will enjoy."

Product Info

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company

Year: 1943

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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