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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust
by Beer, Edith Hahn Dworkin, Susan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0316848476
- ISBN 13
- 9780316848473
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Little Brown & Co. NOT Ted Smart.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £18.99 . Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. No losses. VG+ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, seems lightly used if at all, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 16pp. b/w photos.* Pages: 305 pp. text. vii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Edith Hahn Beerwas an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a 'J'. Soon Edith was taken away to a labour camp and when she returned home after months away she found her mother had been deported. She was assisted by a Christian friend to flee to Munich where she met a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. And despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret. In vivid, wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralysing fear.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with only minor wear to dust jacket reducing it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2256
- Title
- The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust
- Author
- Beer, Edith Hahn Dworkin, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0316848476
- ISBN 13
- 9780316848473
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company, London
- Place of Publication
- London UK 312
- Date Published
- 2000-01-01
- Size
- 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.2 cm
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