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001 C99C83A01D5411EE85C7632C52ECA4DB
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008 220430t20232004orua          000 1 eng d
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035    $a (OCoLC)1313387135
040    $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d HRF $d BDX $d IWP $d SILO
100 1  $a Fisher, David, $d 1946-
245 10 $a War magician : $b based on an extraordinary true story / $c David Fisher.
264  1 $a Ashland, OR : $b Blackstone Publishing, $c 2023.
300    $a 419 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm
500    $a "How an illusionist changed the course of World War II"--Cover.
520    $a When England entered WWII in 1939, legendary magician Jasper Maskelyne cajoled his way into the Camouflage Section and created a new type of warfare: applying the techniques of popular magic to the battlefield. This is the fact-based story of the illusion that won the war in the desert.
600 10 $a Maskelyne, Jasper $x Fiction.
650  0 $a Magicians $z England $x Fiction.
650  0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Fiction. $x Fiction.
650  0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Great Britain $x Fiction.
651  0 $a Great Britain $x Fiction. $y George VI, 1936-1952 $x Fiction.
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952    $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011329.0
956    $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C99C83A01D5411EE85C7632C52ECA4DB
994    $a C0 $b IWP

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