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Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue Of German Jewish Men To Britain, 1939 (FINE COPY OF SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR) [SANDWICH, KENT INTEREST]
by Ungerson, Clare
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0752497936
- ISBN 13
- 9780752497938
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About This Item
Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2014. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, CLARE UNGERSON, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'To ------/Clare Ungerson/Sandwich, 2014'. Illustrated with photographs. In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps were they were subjected to torture, starvation and arbitrary death. The author tells here the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, East Kent, to which up to 4,000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas. With Appendix, Bibliography and Index. Some light spotting to top-edge; else a fine copy, in a fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. . Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine.
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- Title
- Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue Of German Jewish Men To Britain, 1939 (FINE COPY OF SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR) [SANDWICH, KENT INTEREST]
- Author
- Ungerson, Clare
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0752497936
- ISBN 13
- 9780752497938
- Publisher
- History Press
- Place of Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Jewish. Judaica. Jews. Antisemitism. Jews. German Jews. Sandwich, Kent. History. War. Warfare. WW2. World War Two. Second World War. Military Histroy. Military. Kent History. Kent Local History. Local History. Halocaust. Adolf Hitler.
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