THEIR DARKEST HOUR: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII.
by REES**, LAURENCE:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE+./FINE+.
- ISBN 10
- 0091917573
- ISBN 13
- 9780091917579
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,montage'd monochrome+colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+red lettering to front and spine/backstrip,b/w lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xpp+4-310pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,Parts 1-7 comprising 35 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 1 block,between unpaginated pp150/51,a postscript,a timeline,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and Pts separator pages.
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II.He has come face-to-face with rapists,mass murderers,even cannibals,but he has also met courageous individuals who are an inspiration to us all.His quest has taken him from the Baltic States to Japan,from Poland to America,and from Germany to China.Here he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters.Meet Estera Frenkiel,a young Jewish woman given the chance to save ten fellow Jews from deportation and death; Peter Lee,a British officer brutally treated by his Japanese captors; Zinaida Pytkina,a female member of the Soviet Union's infamous SMERSH organization,who took pleasure in killing a German prisoner; Hiroo Onoda,a Japanese soldier so fanatical that he refused to surrender until 29 years after the end of the war; and Petras Zelionka,a Lithuanian who shot Jewish men,women and children for the Nazis. The devastating first-hand testimony in 'Their Darkest Hour' is both a lasting contribution to our understanding of the war and a powerful insight into the behaviour of human beings in crisis. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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- THEIR DARKEST HOUR: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII.
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- REES**, LAURENCE:
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- illus with contemporary b/w+colour photographs.
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- Used - FINE+.
- Jacket Condition
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- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0091917573
- ISBN 13
- 9780091917579
- Publisher
- LONDON.EBURY PRESS,2007.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2007
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