Buy this book on-line BOTTING**, DOUGLAS: : In the Ruins of the Reich.**LONDON.GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN,1985. ISBN 004943036X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,b/w contemporary scenic,photographic illustrated upper wrap (ruins of Dresden.), black+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly aged and minimally foxed/spotted,fore-edges brighter and cleaner without foxing; contents bright,tight and clean - near pristine, no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Publisher's bright and clean,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+ 1-248pp [paginated] includes introduction,13 chapters,b/w Third Reich map,12pp b/w contemporary photographs (24 total) between pp120/1,sources,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table.
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On 8 May 1945,the Nazis surrendered, bringing the war in the West to an end. Hitler had committed suicide in his bunker only days before the fall of Berlin.Two huge Allied armies occupied the ruins of the once mighty Reich. Germany was prostrate,its population starving and its cities devastated,with millions of refugees flooding in from the East.
This book tells of the extraordinary period that followed,until the drama of the Berlin airlift of 1948-9 and the formal division of Germany,the crucible of Europe, into two separate nations.
While the German people eked out a stone-age existence in the rubble of caves and cellars,the occupying powers behaved like Imperial lords,punishing past crimes and perpetuating new ones of their own.'In the Ruins of the Reich' is a portrait of a great European nation in chaos.Germany in the late 1940's gives us a glimpse of what life could be like after the bomb.
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UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean matt,wrap-around black background with a red-bordered,transposed contemporary b/w photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj [ruins of Dresden],with red-Gothic-lettered title to a grey panel and capitalised black-lettered author name within same;; black spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as front in a smaller panel at head,and publisher's capitalised,white lettered name to foot of same, rear panel with same single line red border with white-lettered contemporary graffiti epigram (Berlin,March 1945: Enjoy the war - the peace is going to be terrible.') Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering,a b/w striped headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1-248pp [paginated] includes author's Introduction,13 chapters with 12pp contemporary b/w photogrphs in 1 block, between pp120/21,Sources,a 6pp Bibliography,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with list of author's Travel+Biography and History titles to its reverse,title page,a Contents list/table with a repeated graffiti epigram from rear panel,to its reverse.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its near 40-year-old age.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. See also my book ID rja34479 for another example of this title.
On May 1945 the Nazis surrendered, bringing the war in the West to an end.Hitler had committed suicide in his bunker only days before the fall of Berlin.Two huge Allied armies occupied the ruins of the once mighty Reich.Germany was prostrate,its population starving and its cities devasted,with millions of refugees flooding in from the East.
This book tells of the extraordinary period that followed,until the drama of the Berlin airlift of 1948-9 and the formal division of Germany,the crucible of Europe,into two separate nations. While the German people eked out a stone-age existence in the rubble of caves and cellars, the occupying powers behaved like Imperial lords,punishing past crimes and perpetrating a few new ones of their own.
This book is a portrait of a great European nation in chaos.Germany in the late 1940s gives us a glimpse of what life could be like after the bomb.
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