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THE ARMS OF KRUPP 1587-1968by Manchester, WilliamBook Club Edition
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1968 Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine with red and gilt griffin decoration. Red endpapers with Krupp chronology. Fore-edge deckle. 8vo. xvi, (ii), 942 pp. Liberally illustrated with B&W photographs. Includes Chronology, Genealogy, Bibliography and Index. This is an unmarked copy in excellent condition. The dust jacket (now in Mylar) is moderately chipped. FINE/VERY GOOD. This is a major historical account of a 400-year-old dynasty that armed Germany in three major wars and influenced the course of German and European history for centuries. They were the Third Reich's first family; and they were Europe's richest and most powerful family. Their cannon won the Franco-Prussian war at Sedan in 1870; in 1871 they invented the first antiaircraft gun - to shoot down observation balloons. For forty years they manufactured submarines, beginning with the U-1 that menaced Allied ships and shipping. In WWI their mammoth weapons pulverized Verdun and shelled Paris at a range of 81 miles. Re-arming secretly after Versailles, by 1926 they had perfected the Panzers which were to overrun France, and in 1940 their cannon actually shelled England across the English Channel. The Krupps armed the forces of the Kaiser and of Hitler and financed Hitler's "Terror Election" of 1933. During the Nazi era the Krupps ruled 138 privately owned concentration camps, and Hitler honored their loyalty by decreeing special tax exemptions which continued to be binding in postwar West Germany. They survived a Nuremberg conviction to become the dynamo behind Europe's Common Market. Manchester spent many months in Germany researching what is considered the definitive account of the Krupps and their firm, which came to be called the "Anvil of the Reich". The author conducted interviews in seven countries, examined thousands of letters and the transcript of Alfried Krupp's war crimes trial at Nuremburg. An authoritative and comprehensive history. . Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition.
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