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  • THIS PEACE. by Mann, Thomas (1875-1955)
    Mann, Thomas (1875-1955)
    THIS PEACE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - An ironically titled brief book, written after the Munich agreement of September 1938 in which Mann "castigates those whom he holds responsible for a settlement unfortunate for the future of the democratic peoples" - an event he calls the final triumph of fascism, aided by the ruling classes of England, as he lays out one betrayal after another - of the German people themselves, of the atrocities of the concentration camps and the torture and murder of Jews and Christians, of the annexation of Austria, and of the betrayal of the Czech Republic. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Bibliography. 38 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some discoloration to the gutters of the endpapers and sunning and discoloration to the spine of the dj)

    Book ID: 87519
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  • THE FORCE OF THINGS: A Marriage in War and Peace. by Stille, Alexander.
    Stille, Alexander.
    THE FORCE OF THINGS: A Marriage in War and Peace.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father. So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and in the shadow of World War II. It is the story of a crucial, painful moment in history that reshaped much of American culture and…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father. So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and in the shadow of World War II. It is the story of a crucial, painful moment in history that reshaped much of American culture and society--but also that of two seemingly incongruous people who managed to find love." 376 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 9780374157425.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61253
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