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MASKELYNE, Jasper (1902 – 73). Magic—Top Secret. Watford: Stanley Paul & Co., (1949). Navy cloth, gilt-lettered spine, scarce dustjacket (quite chipped and worn, price-clipped). Halftone photos. 8vo. Dawes bookplate. Foxed.A somewhat fictionalized account of Maskelyne's WWII service in North Africa, the book describes how his talents as an illusionist were used to deceive the Axis by “vanishing" or camouflaging troops, tanks, and even Alexandria Harbor.