The Goebbels Diaries: The Last Days.

SOFTBACK "TRANSLATION FROM 1945 GERMAN EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979.* Publisher: Pan Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour text-illustrated stiff card covers showing the Nazi Symbol with wings in silver on a black ground with a red diagonal stripe. Silver & black titles to face & silver to spine. Minor shelf wear to edges, corners & to head of spine. Creases to top rear corner and to lower front corner. No visible marks to covers. VG.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, light age colouration to pages especially to page edges. Seems lightly. VG. * Illustrations: NONE.* Pages: 327 pp. text. xliii pp. Appendices, chronology, gazetteer, indices & advertisements at rear.* Description:- Grim and fascinating reading – A nightmare world of crashing buildings and desperate conferences as Nemesis approaches. His great gestures were hymns of hate. His chosen form of action was destructive violence. His chosen ceremonial was the funeral…. In a torrent of words he takes leave of us, as the Soviet tanks converge upon the doomed German Capital. This volume presents the material surviving from the period between February 27 and April 9 1945 – the time of the collapse of the Third Reich. Goebbles' diaries from the bunker are a hot line from "two seconds to midnight."* This is a NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st thus. 1st. Imp. with some age and wear to covers reducing it to VG.*