Mission Capri
Product Code:
9780578830476
ISBN13:
9780578830476
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$15.75
Mission Capri is chronicle of the exciting WWII spy mission of the real life American schooner Blackbird and its crews on the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Croatian Adriatic. The secrets of that mission and the events connected to it after WWII are uncovered step by step and skillfully narrated by a professional (Nestor M. Kaminski.) This improbable story forever connects the boat still sailing today and World War II, the Adriatic Sea, Gibraltar, the legendary jazz trumpet player Miles Davis, a young man that disappeared on the Croatian island of Lopud in 1980, American and Scandinavian sailors, the famous inventor Nikola Tesla, the fantastic Argentinian writer Borges, a grand game of chess on World stage, Princeton, MIT, the Cyrillic alphabet, cryptography, sorceresses from the Balkans, and a secret military project in former Yugoslavia. The book's 43 short chapters are generously illustrated with numerous historic photographs and preserved original drawings.
Author: Nestor M Kaminski |
Publisher: Blue Ridge Press |
Publication Date: January 05, 2021 |
Number of Pages: 318 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 0578830477 |
ISBN-13: 9780578830476 |
Mission Capri
$15.75
Mission Capri is chronicle of the exciting WWII spy mission of the real life American schooner Blackbird and its crews on the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Croatian Adriatic. The secrets of that mission and the events connected to it after WWII are uncovered step by step and skillfully narrated by a professional (Nestor M. Kaminski.) This improbable story forever connects the boat still sailing today and World War II, the Adriatic Sea, Gibraltar, the legendary jazz trumpet player Miles Davis, a young man that disappeared on the Croatian island of Lopud in 1980, American and Scandinavian sailors, the famous inventor Nikola Tesla, the fantastic Argentinian writer Borges, a grand game of chess on World stage, Princeton, MIT, the Cyrillic alphabet, cryptography, sorceresses from the Balkans, and a secret military project in former Yugoslavia. The book's 43 short chapters are generously illustrated with numerous historic photographs and preserved original drawings.
Author: Nestor M Kaminski |
Publisher: Blue Ridge Press |
Publication Date: January 05, 2021 |
Number of Pages: 318 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 0578830477 |
ISBN-13: 9780578830476 |