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 where the desert war had just

War Magician
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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 where the desert war had just begun. He used his 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 won the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an entire dummy army in the middle of the desert.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Coward-McCann
Binding Hardcover
Weight 1.34
ReleaseDate 1983-02-17
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Coward-McCann
Binding	Hardcover
Weight	1.34
ReleaseDate	1983-02-17
NumberOfItems	1

War Magician