Buy this book on-line BROGER, KARL - Translation by Oakley Williams: : PILLBOX 17LONDON.THORNTON BUTTERWORTH LIMITED,1930. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published Germany,Jena,1929.From 1937 all his prior works were banned by the Nazis.This is the first English translation and its 1st English edition.] VG,Owner's inked name,address and contemporary date (June 1st 1930) to top left-hand corner of front pastedown. Publisher's original paper-covered card boards/covers with art-deco-esque shapes illustrated design of shaped coloured pastels,a slightly darkened and speckled/ mottled brown cloth blind-spine with bright,crisp,tooled gilt lettering to same; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks tears,splits or fraying present.All corner tips minimally bumped with attendant reciprocal rubbing,paper-covered boards/ covers minimally grubbed with some minor discolouration and other imperfections commensurate with book's age and construction; lightly aged/foxed endpapers,rear free endpaper with bookseller,stationer and bookbinders' grey ink stamp to its recto,hinges solid and sound without any cracking.Top+fore-edges both lightly toned with minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting - to a much lesser degree than is usually encountered for a book of it's age; contents bright,tight with sporadic foxing/spotting throughout - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn,11- 219pp [paginated] includes an autobiographical foreword specially written for the English edition,12 sections/chapters,plus [unpaginated] foxed+spotted recto+verso half-title+title pages,separate dedication and an epigram, both with fore-edge foxing spots and blank rectos,and a contents list/table.A mirrored blemish within the foreword's last pages - on recto and verso of pp14/15.
A fine German autobiographical novel. Known as the workman-poet,Karl Broger was one of the most quoted German authors of his day.In this powerful anti-war work, which is in some way a parallel to the English 'Journey's End',we are given a realistic picture of the horrors of warfare in one of those artificial outposts on the Western Front in WW1.
A number of men cooped up in a pillbox remain true unto death. It rains - unendingly - continuously - hopelessly. Shells burst overhead; an enemy plane flies over with devastating effect - one dead,three wounded.Two set forth on a quest for assistance,and we follow them in their exciting journey; but no help is possible till darkness has fallen.
Meanwhile the pillbox falls in: the occupants are buried alive - thirst overpowers them - they try to open a way out - they try and they fail.At last help comes but too late - corpses are all that is to be found in Pillbox 17.This is the tale of true comradeship - a 'comradeship-in-arms'.
A rare 1st edn,and a true literary find for any collector of this genre.
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