Buy this book on-line WALTER KEMPOSWKI : Swansong 1945. A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day. Translated from the German by Shaun WhitesideGranta, London, 2014
The first English edition, preceding the US edition by two years. 8vo. xxii, 477pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A little bruising to the backstrip ends and a short crease to the upper edge of eight adjacent text leaves. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lifting a fraction at the upper edge and with some corresponding creasing to the spine panel ends. A collection of hundreds of letters, diary extracts and autobiographical accounts, compiled by the author over a twenty year period, which chronicle four significant days in the last three weeks of the Second World War: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25th April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the German surrender.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of WALTER KEMPOSWKI : Swansong 1945. A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day. Translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, collectables, atlases, livres illustrées and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |