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LERNER, BERNICE - foreword by LE FANU, JAMES: : TO MEET IN HELL: BERGEN-BELSEN, THE BRITISH OFFICER WHO LIBERATED IT, AND THE JEWISH GIRL HE SAVED

UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE.AMBERLEY PUBLISHING,2020.

ISBN 9781445694047.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 - 10 ascending.] NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/ purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,montage'd contemporary b/w biographical photographs to front panel of dw/dj with red+black lettering to front+ spine/backstrip,rear panel black-lettered critics' reviews to faded b/w photographic background; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiii-xvpp+1-266pp [paginated] includes Foreword by James Le Fanu,a Prologue,7 chapters and an Epilogue,b/w contemporary photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,to the rear,acknowledgements,Notes and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication,epigraphs (2),contents list/table double-page b/w Europe regional map of journeys taken by liberator and survivor,and to the rear, publisher's illustrated b/w book titles advertisements of related Holocaust subjects. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. On April 5th,1945,Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time.Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners,starving and sick.One month earlier,15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen; deported with her family from Sighet,Hungary,in May of 1944,Rachel had by then already entered Auschwitz,the Christianstadt labour camp,and a forced march through the Sudetenland.In 'To Meet In Hell',Bernice Lerner follows both Hughes and Genuth as they move across Europe towards Bergen-Belsen in the final, brutal year of WW2. The book begins at the end: with Hughes's searing testinony at the September 1945 trial of Josef Kramer,commandant of Bergen-Belsen,along with forty-four SS and guards. 'I have been a doctor for thirty years and seen all the horrors of war' Hughes said,'but I have never seen anything to touch it.' The narrative then jumps back to the spring of 1944, following both Hughes and Rachel as they navigate their respective forms of wartime hell until confronting the worst: Christianstadt's prisoners,including Rachel,are deposited in Bergen-Belsen,and the British Second Army,having finally breached the fortress of Germany,assumes control of the ghastly camp after a negotitated surrender.Though they never met,it was Hughes's commitment to helping as many prisoners as possible that saved Rachel's life. Drawing on a wealth of sources,including Hughes's papers,war diaries,oral histories,and interviews,this gripping volume combines scholarly research with narrative storytelling in describing the suffering of Nazi victims,the overwhelming presence of death at Bergen-Belsen,and characters who exemplify the human capacity for fortitude.Lerner,Rachel's daughter,has special insight into the torment her mother suffered.The first book to pair the story of a Holocaust victim with that of a liberator,'To Meet In Hell' compels readers to consider the full, complex humanity of both. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available worldwide,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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