Ten Thousand Eyes by Richard Collier

Ten Thousand Eyes by Richard Collier is the true story of what the jacket calls the greatest amateur spy operation of all time.

This copy of Ten Thousand Eyes is the first edition, published in London in 1958 by Collins and printed in Great Britain at the Collins Clear-Type Press.

For two years before D-Day, thousands of ordinary French men and women living along the Normandy coast quietly gathered intelligence on Hitler’s Atlantic Wall at the very point where the Allies would land.

Among them were a house painter who stole the Atlantic Wall blueprint from the offices of the Todt Organisation in Caen, and a radio repairman who learned the locations of German units from the sets he fixed.

There was also a bicycle shop owner with a hidden transmitter in his cellar, and a woman who released carrier pigeons when possession of one meant death.

Collier, a respected popular historian of the Second World War, tells their story with pace and detail. Ten Thousand Eyes is both an important account of the French Resistance and a classic of espionage history.

A fine choice for readers of WWII history, D-Day and Normandy campaign enthusiasts, and anyone who enjoys true spy stories.

Condition – Very Good

First edition hardcover of Ten Thousand Eyes. The dust jacket is protected with clear adhesive film and permanently laminated to the boards, with the front and rear flaps adhered to the endpaper versos.

Apart from this the book is in near fine condition, with a tight binding. Pages slightly toned, with no foxing.